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FOREBODINGS 

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FORBEARANCE 

WHAT THE FATHERLAND WOULD DO 

IF DRAWN 

INTO AN EUROPEAN CONFLICT 

BY 

JOHANN WlLHELM VON L6WENELL 

Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, A. B., L. L. D. 

AUTHOR 

European Political Economy; German Economics, Etc. 



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1915 



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Copyright 1915 

By JOHANN WILHELM VON LOWENELL- 
BRANDENBURG-HOHENZOLLERN 



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CONTENTS 



PART ONE 
PART TWO 
PART THREE 

PART FOUR 

PART FIVE 
PART SIX 

PART SEVEN 
PART EIGHT 
PART NINE 
PART TEN 
PART ELEVEN 
PART TWELVE 
PART THIRTEEN 
PART FOURTEEN 
PART FIFTEEN 



PAGE 

How the Story started ... 13 

Forebodings 35 

Beginning of Eastern and 

Western Campaigns ... 55 

Entrance of Turkey into 

Conflict 73 

Invasion of England ... 91 

Peace Conference and Price 

of Peace ....... 103 

Forbearance 125 

United Empire of Germany . 149 

Conclusion 175 

England's Reveries .... 185 

The Fatherland 203 

The Prince of Peace . . . 207 

Our Heroes 223 

Germany as Europe's Savior 235 

England's Nightmare . . . 249 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



OPPOSITE 
PAGE 

1. His Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II of 

Germany 13 

2. Maj. Gen. Erich von Falkenhayn, Minister 

of War 35^ 

3. Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz, Minister of 

the Navy 55^ 

4. The Reichstag Palace 73^ 

5. Officers Club House , 91" 

6. Palace on the "Spree" 103^ 

7. Dr. von Bethmann-Holweg, German Chan- 

cellor 125 1 " 

8. Brandenburg Gate 149 "" 

9. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria- 

Hungary 175"" 

10. Johann "Wilhelm von Lowenell-Branden- 

burg-Hohenzollern 185 ^ 



PREFACE 

Upon my return from Berlin, in October, 
1913, I conceived the thought of putting- into 
words, the story which had escaped me, one 
memorable evening, at the Club, while under 
a sad spell of depression, occasioned by the 
recollections of my intense loneliness, after 
the loss of my entire family, consisting of wife 
and two sons ; leaving me (at forty-two) the 
last remaining member of our family. While 
I have never done anything to startle the 
world, (excepting the wild animals of the jun- 
gle), I was startled myself, when after some 
years of hard study I was the recipient of the 
honorable degrees of A. B. and L. L. D. This 
effort so upset me, that I took solace in travel, 
hunting four-legged game, and indulging in 
serious thought, concerning the future great- 
ness of our beloved country, and how it would 
be acquired, through vast expenditure of lives, 



treasure and indefatigable energy. After read- 
ing the few words expressed between these 
covers, I ask my host of friends not to con- 
demn me for my serious partisanship, but to 
remember, that coming from an aged line of 
noble ancestors, "what is bred in the bone, 
comes out in the flesh;" therefore, read and 
enjoy, ponder and reflect, congratulate or for- 
give me for being a German, and loyal to my 
Kaiser and the traditions of our family. 



GENEALOGY 

John Sigismund von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1572, Married 1594, Died 1619, 

Married Anna of Prussia. Issue 8 children. 

George Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1595, Married 1616, Died 1640, 

Married Elizabeth of Palatine of Rhine, Issue 3 children. 

Louise Charlotte von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born, 1617, Died 1676, 

Married Jacob Kettler Duke of Courland, B. 1610, D. 1682 

Issue 7 children. 

Friedrich Kasimir Kettler Duke of Courland, 

Born 1650, Died 1698, 

Married Elizabeth Sophia, 8th child of Friedrich Wilhelm 

the Great. Issue 4 children. 

Marie Dorothy Kettler of Courland, 

Born 1684, Married 1703, Died 1743. 

Married Albert Friedrich, 7th child of Friedrich Wilhelm 

the Great, Born 1672, Married 1703, Died 1731 

Issue 3 sons, 2 daughters. 

Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1709, Married 1733, Died 1744 

Son of Marie Dorothy of Courland and Albert Friedrich 

von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern. 



Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg-Holienzollern, 
Born 1734, Married 1763, Died 1804, 
Grandson of Marie Dorothy of Courland and Albert Frie- 
drich von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern. 

Wilhelm Wolfgang von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1764, Married 1798, Died 1830. 

Issue 1 son, 1 daughter. 

Joachim Sigismund von Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1800, Married 1837, Died 1890. 

Fled to America 1848, account rebellion. Adopted estate 

surname Lowenell (pronounce in English Lionell) 

Issue 3 sons. 

Sigismund Simeon von Lowenell-Brandenburg-Hohen- 

zollern. Born 1840, Married 1867, Died 1893. 

Issue 2 sons, 2 daughters. 

JohannWilhelm von Lowenell-Brandenburg-Hohenzollern, 

Born 1870, Married 1898. 

Total family, wife and two sons, lost 1910. 




His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm, II of United Germany. 
"No great decision can any longer be taken in world matters without 
Germany and the German Emperor." — Kaiser's Speech, July, 1900. 



PART ONE 




ELLO, Captain, which way?" rang 
out in a cheery voice, in the semi- 
darkness, just beginning to cast its 
shadows under the lime trees of Ber- 
lin's famous Linden. 

Spring was just entering the year, 
ushered in by balmy breezes, sweet scented with 
the blossoms of the thousands of trees all over 
the city. The sight was inspiring, not only to the 
vast multitude parading the avenue, but particu- 
larly so to the young captain, whose mind the past 
few days was full of events, which he was reading 
in the near future, the thoughts of which fur- 
rowed his brow, as he walked along, utterly un- 
conscious of the attention he attracted by old and 
young alike. Although dressed in the garb of 
society, with only a light cape coat over his broad 
shoulders, it could be easily seen he belonged 
to the military. Tall, six foot in his stockings, 



14 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

erect in bearing and demeanor, Captain von Bran- 
denburg, scion and head of one of the oldest fam- 
ilies in Prussia, whose ancestors assisted with Bar- 
barossa in the storming of the walls at Acre in 
1190, was a worthy son of a worthy father. 

The year was 1913, and although the peace hori- 
zon looked clear, dark clouds were gathering. They 
were still invisible, but their presence could be felt, 
and cast a shadow over the peaceful provinces 
throughout all Germany. 

It was just such thoughts that were absorbing the 
Captain, when he heard himself addressed. Looking 
up instantly, he observed the Minister of War di- 
rectly in front of him. 

"Ah ! Good evening, General. I was just going to 
the club, and this meeting you here is auspicious, 
for my mind is weighted with serious thoughts, and 
you, more than any other, can assist me in easing it. 
I presume you are going to the club, as well?" 

"Yes, Captain, I was going over to spend an hour 
or so, but as you have something on your mind that 
seems serious, I will stay, and have you unburden 
yourself." 

"Thank you, General, your kindness is proverbial, 
but I doubt how you will accept the story I am going 
to unfold to you, that has occupied my mind for the 
past fortnight." 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 15 

"Now, Captain, don't be morose; shake off the 
melancholy which has seized you of late, since you 
had the misfortune to lose your wife and family. 
We are all subject to losses that are painful, and 
console yourself that there are millions of others 
whose losses are as painful as your own. Look at 
Captain von Lemberg, lost his father and mother and 
two sisters' all at once. His grief is real, for in their 
loss he is deprived of the sweetest joys of life. Of 
course he is a bachelor, and home ties to him, are 
the same as your family ties." 

"Hold up a minute, General. You are on the 
wrong track ; I thank you for your kindly feeling in 
my grief, but my thoughts right now were not on 
my departed family, but on the perils of the Father- 
land." 

"Ah ! something new developed, and I not yet 
heard of it?" 

"No, General, nothing new. The same old story 
of expectancy and preparedness. But the thought 
that trouble is coming very soon, and the magnitude 
of its fury and consequences' to us, has obsessed me 
with this one thought." 

They had been walking arm in arm, and now 
reached the exclusive club that opened its doors' only 
to the nobles of the military and navy. Their en- 
trance was greeted by voices of numerous friends 
who advanced to meet them. 



16 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

The Minister of War was a comparatively young 
man in the forties', as was the Captain, and well 
liked. Tall and commanding in appearance, the 
military imprinted over every act and action, he was 
the idol of the younger set, and the admiration of 
the elders. Keen and witty, intelligent and hand- 
some, he filled the arduous post of Minister of War 
with confidence to those who entrusted this most im- 
portant duty to him, and none were more highly re- 
spected by His Imperial Majesty, than this hand- 
some minister. These two men were boon com- 
panions, and much sought after. Captain Count von 
Brandenburg was versatile, and an extensive trav- 
eller. The whole civilized world had unfolded itself 
to his gaze, and the dark continent had given up 
much game to his prowess, as a hunter. His mar- 
vellous tales of travel always found a ready ear at 
the club, or in the drawing room, and like Othello 
of old, had won him a wife, a dainty bud, from out 
of a garden teeming with choicest flowers. He had 
gathered the choicest, and tenderly nursed it for 
twelve short years, after which God gathered the 
flower and the two dainty buds resulting from 
this union. The Captain's grief for the untimely 
loss of his family had serious consequences, and for 
nearly one whole year, left the withering hand of 
melancholy upon his once brilliant intellect. But 
careful attention weaned his mind from his affile- 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 17 

tion, and his return to health was gradual, until now, 
at the time of this writing, he had recovered suffi- 
ciently to be almost normal once more physically. 
Mentally, he was, if possible, superior, and his in- 
comings anywhere were always hailed with delight, 
for a good story was always in sight if he could be 
induced to speak. 

There was an unusually large attendance at the 
club this evening, as if they scented an enjoyable 
time, and the entrance of Captain von Brandenburg 
with the War Minister, seemed to confirm them in 
their opinion. Clustering around the two, they led 
the way to one of the private reception rooms. It 
looked as if every member of the club was in attend- 
ance. 

Captain von Brandenburg looked around, "Well, 
boys, what is the grand idea." 

"A story, Captain; we know you are primed for 
one, and no stories' are as interesting as yours." 

"That comes from establishing a reputation," re- 
plied the Captain, "but I will admit I have something 
to say, which I had intended only for the General's 
ear, but upon due consideration, I believe that the 
subject of my remarks is of vast moment to all of 
you, considering as it bears upon the welfare of the 
Fatherland. Our first and last thoughts are for our 
country, and no nation on the face of the earth is 
more patriotic than ours. All of you have pledged 



18 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

your lives to our beloved Kaiser, for the preservation 
of the Empire, and in my opinion the time is not 
far distant when we will all be called to our colors. 
You know better than I what that will mean." 

"Come, come, Captain, don't be misanthropic, there 
is nothing to indicate the least disturbance," spoke 
up one of the older Generals who had seen service 
in France in 1870-1, "although I will admit it is my 
belief it cannot be far distant." 

"That's just the point," responded the Captain, 
"we are always expecting trouble, yet do not know 
in what manner it will come." 

"Well for heaven's sake," replied the veteran Gen- 
eral, "if you feel endowed with second sight, 
ease your mind. I know that most of us will stay 
here all night, if necessary, to be enlightened." 

"General," turning to the Minister of War, "you 
have more influence over our intrepid Captain. Use 
your persuasive voice, that we may all be in the 
listening." 

"Well, gentlemen," replied the War Minister, "I 
am as much at sea as all of you. Captain von Bran- 
denburg was in a brown study when I accosted him 
on the Linden, while coming this' way, and a few 
remarks he let fall led me to believe what he had to 
say was for my ears first. However, if it is not a 
matter of privacy, I will add my voice with yours, 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 19 

and try to persuade the Captain to get his ideas out 
of his system, for the general good." 

Then turning to the Captain, "We are here in 
absolute privacy, and if your remarks should bear 
on private affairs, we can all pledge ourselves to 
hold inviolate that which we have heard. Am I 
right, gentlemen?" addressing the entire audience. 
A chorus' of "Yes, we pledge ourselves." 

"All right, then, boys," replied the Captain. 
"When I wended my way in this direction, I had 
no idea that I was going to unburden myself of 
what has been of absorbing interest to me for the 
past two weeks, but meeting our genial Minister, I 
asked him to come and hear my forebodings. It 
seems that when you saw us entering, you scented 
a story. I will admit that what I have to say might 
prove interesting, but remember one thing, what I 
think, and what may be, are two different things. 
I am not infallible. We are all military and naval 
men, and from your minds, I will attempt to re- 
fresh my own. Think of the next war. What 
a terrible thing to contemplate. No one can grasp 
the full meaning which this word entails. No one 
can imagine the stupendous amount of separate 
units that are necessary to prepare an army corps 
of forty thousand men. Then think what it means 
when the full strength of the nation is assembled. 
Mere words fall short, and fail to convey to the 



90 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

mind the vast amount of material, raw and manu- 
factured, that becomes essential to put our fight- 
ing machine in the field. In this age of figures, 
when millions are spoken of inadvertently, and 
without serious thought, no one in thousands, 
has the slightest conception of what one million 
means. Yet, should it become necessary, we are pre- 
pared to put five million men on the field fully 
equipped. Am I right, General?" 

"Yes, and more, if we have to," responded the 
Minister, without a moment's hesitation. 

"Now," resumed the Captain, "let us see how 
we figure our units. An army corps is a com- 
pleted unit, composed of a number of smaller sec- 
tions. First we have four companies of 250 men 
each, comprising a battalion of 1,000 men. Then we 
have three battalions of four companies, or a total 
of twelve companies forming a regiment of 3,000 
men. Our next formation is a brigade, composed 
of two regiments, making 6,000 men. After which 
we have two brigades calling for 12,000 men, form- 
ing a division, with two divisions in an army corps. 
This is the portion allotted to the infantry. General, 
if I am in error, please correct me. After the in- 
fantry comes the artillery. Nine batteries of field 
guns with howitzers and mortars, in all 72 pieces, 
and three of field battery, calling for six large guns. 
Our cavalry to complete the third division, calls for 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 21 

four squadrons of 200 each, making one regiment 
of cavalry, while a brigade of cavalry consists of 
three regiments or 2,400 men. Don't forget that in 
the cavalry, the man is only one-half a unit. A 
good horse is as necessary to the cavalry, as a gun 
and ammunition are to the infantry. Then there 
are one company of pioneers, a brigade train, field 
bakeries, telegraph troops, field hospital with medi- 
cal attendance, and a machine gun company, as well 
as a battalion of engineers. With the officers to 
command and direct the movement of this vast 
number of men, a total of 40,000 are assembled, and 
consist in full, of one complete army corps. So much 
for the formation of this principal unit, from which 
all manuevers radiate. To assemble an army of 
one million men would mean the gathering together 
of twenty-five army corps. The rapid formation of 
such a vast army is accompanied by many other 
vastly important conditions. Men and animals have 
to eat. If the contrary prevailed, the main worry 
of the commissary would be ended, in fact there 
would be no commissary, with its attendant multi- 
tude, serving the needs of the army. But as every 
living thing has to eat to live, you can readily see 
that a vast amount of food stuffs must accompany 
every army corps. I trust you gentlemen will fol- 
low me carefully, until I come to the digest of my 
story. I can state without egotism, that many of our 



22 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

friends, here assembled, although directly in daily 
contact with their military duties, would not answer 
the questions' off-hand, which I will now dole out 
to you. A man's full rations for one day on the field 
or on the march, weighs four and one-half pounds 
and costs about one and one-half mark. Now, if we 
had these twenty-five army corps encamped in Ber- 
lin, the net weight of foodstuffs would be over 2,250 
tons', while the cost would be, approximately, one 
million and a quarter marks. This is for one day 
only. To convey this to the rear guard on the field, 
would take the use of over one hundred of our large 
cars. The number of animals accompanying every 
army corps is 14,550 horses, of which 6,350 are for 
the cavalry. The balance are used for draft work 
of all kinds. Now horses need a given amount of 
rations daily, fourteen pounds of hay and twelve 
pounds of oats. This stuff is bulky, and as there are 
about 375,000 horses to feed for every 1,000,000 men, 
the amount of fodder necessary to keep them in 
condition would have a net weight of 13,000 tons 
per day, and would fill over 260 large freight cars. 
Then there are other necessities ; medical supplies, 
ammunition and powder, which has to be handled 
more carefully, and takes innumerable more cars. 
You can readily see that the million, people speak of 
so commonly, entails a vast amount of other things 
besides the mere assembling of the men. Over 50,000 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 23 

vehicles, including cannon. As an army on the 
march must of necessity carry not less than ten 
days' rations, you can imagine the incessant shipping 
of merchandise which would naturally be the result. 
Another thing, gentlemen, is that in time of war the 
nation consumes, and its production is curtailed. But 
thank God, our beloved country is entirely free of 
all the nations. We produce all we need and are 
independent of imports. If we were cut off from the 
world, we would be able to live in our every day 
way, without feeling the pangs of hunger. So much 
for our wise laws, that put a ban on all waste areas, 
and considers the welfare of the country, first, last, 
and all the time. As we are all officers, we are not 
burdened like the fighting branch of the service. 
Every man carries, exclusive of his clothes, his rifle 
and bayonet which weighs ten and three-quarter 
pounds. His ammunition, belt, knapsack and con- 
tents and canteen of water, weighs thirty-six pounds ; 
in all, he packs nearly forty-seven pounds, which 
on a hike of ten miles, is liable to become heavy. 
"All my remarks have concerned the army. Let us 
see what is necessary to the navy. Here conditions 
are vastly different. The fighting unit carries all its 
necessities within itself, food stuffs, water, coal, oil, 
guns and ammunition. We have a vast number of 
large fighting machines which we were obliged to 
construct, simply to keep pace with other nations, 



24 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

soon to be our enemies. My candid belief is that in 
the war that will confront us, these mammoth and 
powerful vessels will be of little or no use to us, as 
raiders, or to engage in open battle. Our submarines 
will prove the wonder of the age, and in my estima- 
tion will sink many a battle cruiser of the enemy. 
Now, Admiral, don't get peeved. Time will show 
that I am right. I can foresee one thing very clearly, 
that in the war which is almost upon us, we will be 
pitted against all of Europe, with Austria, Hungary 
and Turkey as our only allies. The reason I look 
for Turkey to be our ally is that fear that Russia 
will renew her life's long ambition to take Constan- 
tinople. As we all know, the Turkish army has been 
put in a state of efficiency and discipline under our 
system, and with our engineers at the straits, can 
defy the navies of the whole world. We cannot de- 
pend on Italy, as our treaty with her is such as pre- 
cludes her assistance, if we are attacked from East, 
North and West simultaneously, which is just exactly 
what will happen. However, bear in mind that 
should Italy shirk her sworn duty, and declare for 
an armed neutrality, such a proceeding will not de- 
ceive us. While acquiescing to such a procedure, we 
will watch her carefully. As the conflict proceeds, 
and Italy shows any leaning toward our enemies, 
after she is on a strictly war footing, through pres- 
sure of our enemies, and oversteps the bounds of her 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 25 

neutrality, and comes out flat footed and defiantly 
against us, I can only say, my friends, that not only 
will she regret it, but will rue the day she allowed 
her statesmen to be won from the path of duty, as 
outlined on the original treaty. Our vengeance will 
be small indeed, if her three most populous and im- 
portant states, bordering our allies country, i. e., 
Piedmont, Lombardy and Venetia are not annexed 
to Austria as an example to all nations for such a 
perfidy. 

The result will be that we will have Russia 
to contend with on the Baltic. If we are wise, we 
will be able to prevent her from reaching the sea by 
bottling her up in her home roads. Not with battle- 
ships, but with our mines and submarines. Next we 
are liable to be compelled to seek the safe roadways 
behind Heligoland and the Kiel canal, for our 
enemies of England and France, having possession 
of the narrow English Channel will attempt a block- 
ade. We would not venture into the North Sea, 
three or four against every one of our own. You 
don't imagine our wise Prince Henry and the Ad- 
miral, are going to go on parade, just to be shot at? 
Nothing like it. We will send out our submarines, 
the number of which is wholly unknown to our 
enemies. We will sink every vessel we find, bear- 
ing the enemies' flag or any ship known to belong to 
the enemy, no matter what it is, or where it comes 



26 HOW THE 8 TOBY STARTED 

from. Our merchant marine will be entirely stopped 
at the command of the Kaiser. The chances are, that 
there will be no exports whatever, as we are securely 
locked in by Gibraltar, as well as by the Channel. 
If nothing is able to go out, surely nothing will be 
allowed in. A nation at war with powerful adver- 
saries, cares nothing for existing laws, nor the rights 
of neutral countries, if they are counter to their 
safety. 

United States of America could rave at England 
for their interference with her commerce without be- 
ing able to help herself. If England and France hold 
the Channel and Gibraltar, not a mosquito could 
pass — only our submarines. We would have to 
retaliate by blockading the entire British coast 
with mines' and submarines, and catch their more 
important bottoms coming or going. The most 
pitiful thing will be when liners are caught in 
the net, and innocent neutral passengers are lost. 
We can get along without outside assistance, but 
England would starve in short order. Our wise 
Admiral would never think of risking his fleet un- 
til such time as we have reduced the enemies' fleet 
to such proportions as would about equalize their 
numbers and tonnage. America, deprived of our 
exports and unable to bring anything to us, will 
direct all her trade to our enemies. United States 
is in no position to resist England and France. Her 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 27 

navy would be in the same fix as our own, and her 
merchant marine at the mercy of the first torpedo. 
Naval battles won't decide anything in this war. It 
will be only when some decisive land battle is waged 
and won, that the home governments sue for peace. 
I tell you, gentlemen, we are going to be isolated. 
All our cables run through the channel. What is to 
prevent England from cutting them and stuffing the 
outside world with fish stories of battles that never 
existed? No matter how strong our enemies may 
appear to be, they will look for sympathy and more 
assistance. All nations will spend money like water. 
When vast amounts of gold are being used, the para- 
sites, who infest all influential offices, will betray 
their home governments for the proverbial shilling. 
No country will be exempt, excepting our own. A 
German financier with opportunity to graft, would 
sooner die than take advantage of the government. 
Not so with other nationalities. All nations will bor- 
row money and spend it away from home. But 
Germany will spend all her billions at home, not a 
pfennig outside. Result, prosperity and good will at 
home. Panic and revolt elsewhere. Financial ex- 
haustion or starvation will not apply to the Father- 
land. England must be struck at some vulnerable 
point. That point will be her navy and her stomach. 
The loss of one will affect the other. While our 
economic position is the reverse. We cannot be 



28 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

starved. Should the war start in spring our harvest 
is sufficient to last the Empire until another harvest. 
Germany has raised more wheat, potatoes, rye, 
barley, and oats per acre than any country in the 
world, including the United States. We have over 
six million horses, more than forty million sheep, 
about twenty million hogs. Of cattle we have more 
than twenty-five million. Such are our resources in 
live stock. Our ally, Austria-Hungary, has nearly as 
much. We conserve all our strength at home. Our 
colonial possessions will take care of themselves. 
Our enemies will be so occupied in their defensive 
as to preclude their running thousands of miles away 
to attack them, altho it may happen in isolated loca- 
tions. Their forces will have to be so distributed as 
to guard against revolt in their colonies, for England 
well knows that the iron hand is the only safeguard 
she has. Love and fealty in the colonies for Eng- 
land is a mere sham to cover their future designs. 
Give them the opportunity when their oppressor can- 
not strike back, and England will be quickly shorn 
of her rare jewels. My friends, when war comes 
we must hit first, hit hard and be continually at it. 
There is no moderation in war, nor can it be civiliz- 
ed. Such attempts to do so would be the act of an 
imbecile and work vast harm. We have the advantage, 
and we must retain it. Russia is a brute in her ignor- 
ance, and in that ignorance will commit crimes that 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 29 

will horrify the world. England is crafty, and in her 
intellectual way will connive at the basest method of 
warfare, in my opinion, just as she did to the poor 
Boers. Starvation will be her main weapon of 
reliance, backed by her navy. France in her greed 
to recover her lost provinces, originally stolen from 
Germany, will gladly acquiesce in this foul method 
of warfare, against her better judgment. They won't 
realize what it means, until the weapon of torture 
is turned against themselves. Our military training 
does not include refined cruelty. Let our enemies 
practice it at their peril. Our greatest fear from 
Russia is the debasing of our women, should any 
fall into their clutches. That is one reason why in- 
vaders should never be allowed to get close enough 
to our borders to defile it. Concentration camps are 
a menace to morals, and we may be thankful our 
military system precludes any such unnecessary train- 
ing. Should such camps be organized by any of our 
enemies during the war to come, I hesitate to speak 
of the woeful results emanating from undue licen- 
tiousness on the part of the idle youth, while await- 
ing the orders of the war department, for their dis- 
position. We do not want war, but if it is thrust 
upon us, we will not evade it, and woe to those who 
seek our hurt. 

"A nation attacked is a nation whose quarrel is 
just, and there will be no German who is not abso- 



30 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

lutely convinced that the Fatherland needs his help, 
and will give it without stint or expectation of re- 
ward. We have no other desire than to be left alone, 
and that desire has caused us to build up a war 
machine that will convince our envious neighbors, 
that we will demand that our desires for peace shall 
be respected." 

"But Captain," asked a young lieutenant, "in your 
forebodings can you tell us what will be the actual 
causes of the war you say is almost upon us." 

"Yes, in a way, my dear Heinrich," replied the 
Captain. "The causes will be two fold. One a great 
crime, on which I am not quite ready to discourse, 
and the other is our militarism, on which I will say 
a few words, before giving you my reasons for the 
great crime, the result of which, will be the pretext 
our enemies have long waited for. 

"Our personal knowledge that some day we were 
to be the brunt of an united attack, has caused us to 
build up a mighty bulwark for our defense in our 
military. The other nations term us militarists, and 
spread abroad the nauseating idea that we were re- 
solved to capture the earth. It is too bad they did 
not include the sun, moon and stars. We have over- 
come the laws of gravity in the heavens, with our 
mighty aerial craft, and taken Neptune by storm, by 
navigating beneath the waters. But our rapid 
growth has alarmed our enemies, and our attempt to 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 31 

build a navy, coupled with our militarism, was more 
than their egotism could endure. 

"They could see it in only one light, that we were 
bent on war, whereas our motive was just the con- 
trary. It is an undeniable fact that while England, 
Russia, Japan, France, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Ser- 
via, Bulgaria and Greece were embroiled in bloody 
wars of conquest during the last 20 years, we stood 
all alone for peace. Our overwhelming desire for 
peace was deeply visible in the manner of our ac- 
ceptance of the Algeciras conference, and while we 
were humiliated, we preserved our peaceful attitude. 
We were better prepared, at that, to force issues 
with all Europe, if necessary, than any of our neigh- 
bors. It is utter folly to condemn our militarism. 
We are obliged to pursue this course, just as Eng- 
land pursues her policy with her navy. If England 
was surrounded by neighbors who hated freedom, 
enlightenment and progress, would she give up her 
navy, and put herself in the power of her merciless 
and jealous neighbors? 

"Why not arrive at the real bone of contention. I 
tell you, my friends, that the real cause of England's 
unholy jealousy is not our militarism, not our navy, 
but our rapid rise in the commercial markets of the 
world. Did we conquer these markets on the strength 
of our militarism, or on the real merits of our 
manufactures ? 



32 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

"To any one with reasoning power, it is easily ap- 
parent. Our army and our navy really mean disci- 
pline, and with discipline comes efficiency, to meet 
any contingency that might arise, striking at the 
welfare of the Fatherland. We are constantly ma- 
ligned on all sides. Every act of ours is watched, 
with fear and suspicion. But our successes' in the 
sciences are copied with avidity. England rules the 
waves, on top (for the present) but Germany fur- 
nishes the intellect. 

"Are we continually harping on revenge from 
France? All one hears in Paris, where they make 
no secret of it, is revenge on Germany for Alsace- 
Lorraine. Do you ever hear in Berlin such vulgar 
expressions as revenge on France for the foul crimes 
of the first Napoleon at Tilset and Berlin? Who 
has greater cause for revenge? Is the loss of a 
small province to be compared to the wanton humil- 
iation of our beloved Queen Louisa? No, a thousand 
times no. But we are endeavoring to forget, while 
with France it is the opposite. She nurses every 
grievance, real or fancied. Take the insolent in- 
scription under a famous monument for instance, 
which reads "Lost 1870, recovered — ?" What ut- 
ter folly to keep alive the jealous passions of the 
nation, for events that occurred over forty years 
ago. 



HOW THE STORY STARTED 33 

"My friends, this coming struggle will be no child's 
play. Diplomacy will be set aside. If such a thing 
were possible, that we could not protect ourselves, 
what would be the result. Away with such dreams ! 
We cannot lose ! Think of the vast number of mod- 
ern weapons, quick firing guns, scientific guns ex- 
ploding suffocating gases, and aerial bombs. Think 
of our enormous siege guns, twice as great as any 
known to our enemies, and last, but not least, think 
of the loyalty of our peopde, fighting in desperation, 
to safeguard their homes and women. What care we 
for the dislikes of other nations. We know our be- 
loved Kaiser is hated by our enemies. But he suits 
all of us. When war comes he will be more popular 
than ever. We know he is the only man in the Em- 
pire worthy to serve as an example to his people, for 
he possesses all the virtues that an upright mortal, 
walking in the fear of God, could inspire. His noble 
mind, piety, and outward appearance, are all in ac- 
cordance with the desires of his people. He will 
surely lead us to victory, and we will give him such 
a victory that his enemies will never again dare to 
cast aspersions' at the Fatherland. 

"Now, General," turning to the Minister of War, 
"you know better than any other, just how we stand. 
Should any great crime occur, to rend the passion of 
our people, or of our allies' government, would we 



34 HOW THE STORY STARTED 

be prepared to resent it, even if we had to face all 
the world?" 

"Captain," calmly replied the Minister, "we could 
be in Paris before that nation realized there was 
war." 

"Thank you, General," responded the Captain. 

"Now, my friends, if you will all gather your 
chairs around me, I will begin to tell you the digest 
of my forebodings and in the result, the forbearance 
of our glorious Emperor." 

All the members of the club placed themselves in 
such a position, semi-circle, with Captain von Bran- 
denburg in the center, so as to catch every word. 

"My friends, the story is long and will take time 
far into the night, but I want to get it out of my 
system, and am ready to share it with you. Should 
I utter anything, my dear General," turning to the 
Minister, "that you disapprove of being known, make 
a note of it, and advise our friends, that it must go 
no further. Above all do not interrupt me, but allow 
me to tell it in my own peculiar way. I will now 
speak of the great crime, which I mentioned a few 
minutes ago, and which, in the manner it is related, 
will speak for itself." 




Moijor-General von Falkenhayn, Minister of War, 



PART TWO. 

II 

If^PCBp^lsJl IKE a peal of thunder reverberating in 
ll^wB-^SlI a clear sky, the assassination of a royal 
£8P_^«J| head of Austria-Hungary was heard 
ll^ii&ilEP^II throughout the civilized world. The 
(y^l^igllU "Man of Many Sorrows" was to add 
another to his long list of afflictions, 
already overflowing in its intensity. The horoscope 
of Austria-Hungary was about to be accomplished. 
Long patient suffering was at last to break its bounds, 
and punishment, quick and severe, to be meted out 
to the conspirators. This tiny flame, lit by some 
member of the Balkan states, if fanned to fury by 
resistance, would be the means of spreading a confla- 
gration that would involve all Europe, and ultimately 
overwhelm all the weaker states. Europe has long 
expected some overt act that would start the seeth- 
ing cauldron of jealousy and ambition to overflow, 
and would reach forward to grasp the coveted prize, 
should circumstances place it within grasp, or if 



36 FOREBODINGS 

not so easily plucked, assist assiduously at first, and 
later, without pretense. The inordinate passions of 
the European states would ultimately bring into 
conflict the three cardinal objects of all govern- 
ments. First, conquest; second, revenge; third, 
peace. 

The greater the power, the more reason for con- 
quest, as in their fancied strength lies the domineer- 
ing tendencies to crush any power aspiring to na- 
tional wealth or greatness. This spirit has existed in 
all previous ages, when the world was supposed to 
be in barbarous and heathenish condition, down to 
our present state of modern culture and civilization. 
Such a state will eventually meet its master, and 
suffer the fate of the United Kingdom of Isreal, 
the Empire of Alexander, and the decay of the 
Roman power, not to mention the fall of the mighty 
Spanish empire of recent times. 

The nation that seeks revenge for wrongs inflicted, 
whether real or imaginary, is a foe with a more right- 
eous object, whose one absorbing ambition may be 
the recovery of provinces lost at an earlier date, or 
to redress a grievous crime against its state and 
humanity. 

The nation whose main object is peace, though 
surrounded on all sides by enemies, kept at a dis- 
tance only by eternal vigilance and preparedness, is 
a nation whose quarrel is always just, and to pre- 



FOREBODINGS 37 

serve that peace and contentment within her borders, 
will exert every endeavor in its power to counteract 
the implied or vicious intentions of its foes, even 
to exhausting its life and treasures. 

The firebrand that was to set aflame the continent 
of Europe was not the dictator, but an accepted mur- 
derer, whose great crime against humanity was 
condoned by the various courts of Europe in unison 
for fear of a worse offense. The great crime of dis- 
membering Turkey of its possessions, for no other 
reason than its religious doctrines, which differed in 
a trifling nature from their own, was at last to react 
upon civilization, and prove conclusively that 
oriental ideas of peace were far superior to occi- 
dental strife. 

What matter if one nation accepted God as the 
Almighty, and Mohammed as his Prophet, with 350,- 
000,000 adherents, if the other accepted the same 
God with the Christ as their Prophet, with 450,- 
000,000 adherents, divided into innumerable antago- 
nistic branches. Who is wise enough to tell which 
is in the right? One is justified as much as the 
other in its mode of worship. 

Why not go further and chastize Confucius for 
daring to be the same God's Prophet, with their 
450,000,000 adherents. Western civilization is in its 
infancy compared to the Orient, who laugh at the 
pretensions of their Prophet and the humbug it ad- 



38 FOREBODINGS 

vocates, just as western thought ridicules everything 
Oriental. Our most enlightened thought teaches 
that, "if one believes he is right, all roads lead to 
heaven." 

The supposed heathen will eventually strike back 
at the Christian dog. This is not revenge, but vanity, 
the greatest sin in the decalogue. The result of giv- 
ing independent power into the hands of these prov- 
inces wrested from Turkey, and the crafty manner 
in which their promoters made them buffer states, 
only intended them to be the future mischief makers 
of Europe. 

Nearly every conflict during the past eight hun- 
dred years has had for its' object some portion of 
the Balkan peninsula. Now for the third time within 
the past decade, was a member to start anew the pas- 
sions of Europe, not in one of their petty quarrels, 
but in a war that is liable to involve all the world. 
This world war has long been anticipated, and con- 
sequently all great nations have been feverishly 
straining every energy for the past forty years' to 
meet it, when it comes. As is usual in great crises, 
trouble comes slowly, but when the next war con- 
fronts us, it will come like a flash of lightning, with- 
out much warning, and woe to him who finds him- 
self unprepared, for in the termination of the strug- 
gle, to the victor will belong the spoils, and the spoils 
will be vast, and the cost in blood and treasure great. 



FOREBODINGS 39 

The quiet annexation of Bosnia and Herzogovina 
by Austria-Hungary, in October of 1908, so incensed 
Servia, at what she considered an usurpation of 
rights belonging solely to her, leads me to believe 
that Servia will be the aggressor that will precipi- 
tate death and devastation upon the continent, and 
also be the means of forever eradicating the Balkan 
question from Europe, by their subsequent annihila- 
tion and subjugation. Assassination being the 
favorite weapon of reprisal for this nation, my im- 
pression is that she will aim at one of the Royal 
Family of Austria-Hungary to gratify her malice and 
revenge, with the ulterior motive of embroiling Aus- 
tria-Hungary, so as to have a motive for an attempt 
to annex the coveted provinces. Upon this suppo- 
sition is the curtain of the veiled future withdrawn. 

Such an act would call for vengence from Austria- 
Hungary. The diplomatic negotiations, arising from 
such an act between these two countries, would need 
no outside assistance, as it would be merely a ques- 
tion arising between two sovereign nations, and not 
a subject for arbitration. Servia would be given a 
stipulated amount of time to meet the demands made 
by Austria-Hungary, to turn over to Austrian jus- 
tice, all those compromised in the assassination, but 
being of a Slavic race, would ask the advice of Rus- 
sia, as chief of all the Slav nations', and consequently, 
Russia foreseeing the end of Servian entity by her 



40 FOREBODINGS 

subjugation to Austria-Hungary, if it came to a 
clash of arms between these two, which would be in 
direct opposition to Russian policy, that all Slav 
nations shall be controlled by her, surreptitiously 
forbids her acquiescence to Austria's demand, prom- 
ising moral support. 

Upon this secret advice, Servia attempts to mis- 
lead Austria, who not knowing of Russia's influence 
in Servia's reply, sees no other recourse, but to take 
by force of arms, the justice that is denied her peace- 
fully. The declaration of war upon Servia, by Aus- 
tria, rather startles Russia, who had not anticipated 
any such move so rapidly, and to offset it, immedi- 
ately starts to mobolize her troops along the German- 
Austrian border, probably thinking such a move 
would frighten Austria. But this act would threaten 
the peace of Germany, who would immediately ask 
Russia for a declaration of her intentions, and de- 
mobilization along her border, which if refused, 
would precipitate the long-looked for and equally 
long evaded war against Russia, the fear of which 
caused Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1883 to 
form a dual alliance of defense, against Russia only, 
which in 1886 was augmented by an alliance with 
Italy, for the defense of Germany against French 
invasion only. 

This alliance is diplomatically known as the Triple 
Alliance, the terms of which read in such a manner 



FOREBODINGS 41 

as to preclude the entrance of Italy into the conflict, 
if Germany and Austria-Hungary are attacked simul- 
taneously by Russia and France, which would allow 
Italy to issue a proclamation of neutrality. To offset 
this alliance, France and Russia entered into an 
agreement the following year, which was for each 
other's mutual protection against their superior foe. 

Russia being taken unawares by Austria's declara- 
tion of war against Servia; and Germany's prompt 
attitude to prevent any interference in Austria's pri- 
vate affairs, would soon convince Russia that she 
must not allow her ambition to gain the ascendancy, 
without reckoning the cost. But Russian bureau- 
cracy, to retrieve their signal defeat in the Orient 
in 1904-5 with a despised nation, would rush head- 
long into the fiery furnace, and under pretext of 
assisting Servia, would boldly declare war against 
Germany, or by some menace, compel Germany to 
take the initiative. The consequence of such an act 
would call in the assistance of France to help her 
ally, Russia. But as French diplomacy differs con- 
siderably from Russian brutality, France would at- 
tempt to disguise her intentions, until she would be 
in a position to have a considerable body of troops 
along her border, facing Alsace-Lorraine, stationed 
at her main positions of Verdun, Nancy and the 
natural fastnesses of the Vosges, ready to invade the 
coveted provinces lost to her in 1871. At the same 



49 FOREBODINGS 

time mobilize troops along her northern border, to 
enter Belgium, with the intention of overwhelming 
Germany from the two points' of contact. 

But in the crisis that would be approaching, lin- 
gering diplomacy would have to be relegated to the 
rear, as instant action would be the only means of 
averting a catastrophe to Germany, who being 
familiar with the Gaulic mode of deception, would 
immediately make demands on France, to declare her 
intentions, probably giving twelve hours or less for 
a reply, which if ignored, would cause Germany to 
declare war against France immediately. 

Conditions now being well in hand from a Ger- 
man standpoint of preparedness, she would not have 
to prepare her forces, as would Russia and France, 
but would be in a position to begin all over again the 
tactics employed in 1870-1. 

This would mean the breach of neutrality of the 
buffer state of Belgium, to avoid which, the German 
government would approach the Belgian government 
with a guarantee of good faith, and reprisal, for all 
damages inflicted. Such a request, made open and 
above board, would of course not meet with the ap- 
proval of France; and England would be likely to 
uphold France, for the reason that if Germany was 
allowed to overrun Belgium, and had access to the 
coast, it would mean an opposition to British sea 
supremacy, which under no circumstances' would be 



FOREBODINGS 43 

tolerated. Therefore the request of Germany to 
Belgium would be opposed by England, under threat 
to land troops in Belgium to protect her neutrality, 
but this excuse would be too transparent to cover 
her real motives. 

Belgium in her innocence of British designs, and 
placing full reliance in her power, to protect her 
from German invasion, would assent to England's 
counsel, thus allowing England, who would have no 
real cause to enter this quarrel, except her over- 
weening vanity, a pretense to declare war, for the 
first time in her history, against Germany, and rush 
what few troops she had, to assume the defense of 
Belgium, and attempt to hide from the enlightened 
portion of the world, her real reason for her action. 

This would be the beginning of a struggle which 
would involve all Europe, and with European pos- 
sessions scattered all over the world would even- 
tually bring the quarrel to the western hemisphere 
and perhaps by some overt act, similar to the sink- 
ing of the Maine during the Spanish-American war, 
involve America, thereby fulfilling the prophecy 
which predicted a world's war, the cause of which 
would not be understood by the multitude, who would 
be giving up their lives to a cause entirely foreign 
to them, just to uphold the passions and jealousies 
of their respective governments. However, I do not 
anticipate any difficulties with the Americas. 



44 FOREBODINGS 

Thus would power, be looking forward to increase 
that power, regardless of the suffering caused to dis- 
interested women and children. Thus would revenge 
satiate herself on the pinnacle of devastation and 
death, to avenge an insult to her vanity, and thus 
would peace be immolated on the altar of martyrdom, 
in the defense of her homes, and the national govern- 
ment, which assured the people peace, contentment 
and liberty in the rights they were entitled to. The 
intention of Belgium to resist the passage of German 
troops through her domain, assisted as she now 
would be by France and England, would not alter 
Germany's original plan of offense, but would change 
the conditions concerning Belgium's status in the 
conflict, and end in a declaration of war against 
Belgium by both Germany and Austria-Hungary, and 
attempt to take by force the passage denied them 
peacefully, which could only result in the ruin of 
Belgium. 

Germany, surrounded on all sides by a common 
enemy, whose chief ambition was to march on to 
Berlin, and crush this peaceful rising government, 
who dared to assert her rights to exist and prosper, 
in defiance to the dictator, knowing better than her 
foes, her resources, was prepared to fight the whole 
of Europe, if necessary, to maintain her cause. She 
did not look for conquest. She did not look for 
revenge. She had no desire to fight. But she did 



FOREBODINGS 45 

look for peace for her people at all times, and under 
all circumstances. 

In embroiling Germany with the balance of Eur- 
ope, the original cause of the quarrel would be for- 
gotten for the time being. Servian subjugation 
would now be deferred, as of no consequence, it 
could be accomplished whenever necessary, for Aus- 
tria-Hungary would now be compelled to exert every 
energy to resist invasion from Russia, as Austrian 
territory would lend itself to less resistance, on ac- 
count of its topography ; and owing to the vast num- 
ber of troops Russia would ultimately put in the 
field, Austria realized that the greatest precaution 
would be needed, to protect her borders, and prevent 
the Russian hordes from reaching the Carpathians, 
for once through the mountain passes, the fertile 
plains of Hungary would become an easier prey to 
the invaders. 

This must be prevented at all costs. Servia with- 
out aid from Russia, who would now have no time to 
waste on the fomenter of all this trouble, would re- 
sign herself to a passive defense. One Hungarian 
army corps along her borders would prevent any 
offensive operations on the part of Servia, and 
would allow Austria-Hungary to go to the assist- 
ance of her ally, Germany, should such a course 
become necessary. 



46 FOREBODINGS 

There is no doubt that under the terms of the dual 
and triple alliance, Italy would find herself between 
two fires, and would accept the lesser of two evils. 
Her obligations to Germany on the west, and to Ger- 
many-Austria-Hungary on the east, never did con- 
template the entrance of England into the quarrel. 
The consequence of which, after mature delibera- 
tion, would be to declare an armed neutrality. Italy, 
realizing the ineffectiveness of a British invasion on 
German soil, would still her conscience, thereby 
in forsaking her allies. On the other hand, if Italy 
went beyond her agreement, and stood by her allies, 
she would be liable to receive the brunt of British 
opposition, by having to defend her coast on both 
sides from the French and British naval attacks, and 
would gratuitously draw the anger of her subjects 
against the government which might possibly over- 
throw the present dynasty. 

The lesser of two evils for the present would be 
adopted, and Italy would preserve a strict neutrality 
with every one concerned. Every effort would be 
exerted to prevent a breach of this neutrality, which 
was all right as far as it went, but Italy knew that 
in the past, neutrality was only a name, and not a 
thing to conjure with. 

Here for instance would be Germany declaring war 
against Belgium, to overcome the principles raised 
up against her, to protect herself from her foes, and 



FOREBODINGS 47 

prevent the same breach of neutrality on the part 
of England and France, who would invade her do- 
main, although not at war with her. While Germany 
offered Belgium peace and protection, England or- 
ders her land invaded, which is sure to bring ruin to 
that country. 

The world has not yet forgotten, that in the Russo- 
Japanese war, that Russia on the two relays which 
divided, on their way to engage the Japs in battle, 
coaled and provisioned her whole fleet in a French 
port, in strict violation to her proclamation of neu- 
trality, first at Madagascar, and later on in French 
Indo-China, without the quiver of an eyelash. While 
now England would set up a cry of unjust invasion 
of Belgium, which must be resisted at all costs. 

There is no doubt in my mind that every principle 
of existing international law will be violated, for 
every nation at war will act according to conditions 
as they arise, and special conditions will be created 
outside the pale of humanity, if same will benefit 
either side, for never in the history of nations has 
such a meaningless quarrel been foisted upon the 
civilized ( ?) world. 

England will declare she is fighting for her life, 
and the liberty of her people, as well as for the 
civilization of the world. She will forget to mention 
that her money bags might be in danger, and her 
vanity receive a shock by Germany's attempt to give 



48 FOREBODINGS 

more liberty to all the world on the natural high- 
ways of the seas' to no nation's exclusion. If such 
be England's reason for fighting, why did she push 
herself forward in a quarrel that was of no concern 
to her ? Why enter a conflict on so gigantic a scale, 
the like of which she had never before engaged in? 
Why this constant running around with a chip on her 
shoulder? Why this eternal boasting of the super- 
iority of her navy? Was the gathering together of 
her troops, from all her colonies, all over the world, 
to hurl against her German cousin, and in fact her 
Fatherland, merely for the sole purpose of protect- 
ing the neutrality of Belgium? Was the expendi- 
ture of treasure, the vastness of which was never 
before dreamed of, for the sole purpose of showing 
to the world that her financial resources were un- 
assailable? Was the enormous loss of life (the 
greater portion belonging to her colonies) she was 
willing to sacrifice, for no other reason than to pro- 
tect the feeble ? No, a thousand times, no ! How 
many nations could rise up and point an accusing 
finger against their oppressor? Who would be will- 
ing to swallow the premeditated crushing of the 
Transvaal and Orange Free State? Does not every 
one know that England expended one thousand mil- 
lions of treasure and sacrificed one-quarter of her 
army of half a million men, just to satisfy the de- 
sires of two or three of her statesmen, and one 



FOREBODINGS 49 

or two who were simply speculators? Is it not a 
known fact that British greed will intrude itself 
where she is not wanted? 

England's reason, and her only reason, is that she 
fears Germany would supersede her in industry and 
commerce, and take from her the dominant position 
she imagines she occupies in the world, the loss of 
which, or the sharing of which, would be more than 
her vanity or egotism could endure. Germany must 
be kept down. German thrift must be curbed. No 
nation shall dare to rise higher than permitted by 
the dictator. Even German population must be 
curbed, lest Germany wax too great. 

Liberty and justice for the world was a mere sham 
and pretense. Ireland's struggle for liberty for cen- 
turies, is a striking example. They are not cousins 
like Germany of a different tongue. They are her 
own brothers and sisters. Yet Ireland has been en- 
slaved even worse than any other British possession, 
and the noble, long-suffering Irish scattered to the 
four winds of heaven. Any port in a storm is their 
cry, rather than endure the criminal government 
foisted upon them, devoid of voice or representa- 
tion. 

Germany would realize that with the entrance of 
England in this war, her real foe would not be Rus- 
sia nor France, but England. Russia, bulky, slow, 
slave-driven and illiterate, would offer a stubborn 



50 FOREBODINGS 

resistance and finally exhaust herself, and when she 
is tired of fighting, will ask for peace, having been 
unable to receive a particle of assistance from her 
allies, from whom she expected so much. 

France on the contrary, will not give up so 
quickly, assisted as she will be by Belgium and Eng- 
land. There is only one way in which France will 
sue for peace, and that will be with the fall of Paris, 
and Germany in possession of all her northern and 
eastern border, or the overthrow of the Republic, 
which would hasten the end. While with England, 
after losing her army of occupation, and cut off from 
all her allies, she would retire to her shores and 
continue to harass the merchant marine, until Ger- 
many would invade England, and take possession of 
Parliament, before England would sue for peace. 
British colonies all over the world would take up the 
quarrel of the mother country, just as if they had 
some vital interest in the conflict, and would attack 
German interests wherever they encountered them. 
Not content with having allies' from all Europe at 
her knees, she will drag in Japan to wage war 
against all German possessions in the Orient, and 
by so doing, work more harm to her own interests 
in the near future. 

Japan attacking German colonies, and meeting 
hardly any resistance, will feel disposed later on to 
do the same with England and France, as well as 



FOREBODINGS 51 

attempt to disposses United States of her Philippine 
possessions, knowing that the United States would 
be almost helpless to protect them indefinitely. 

England will leave no stone unturned in her en- 
deavors to antagonize United States against us, and 
would even go so far as to cast suspicion on Ger- 
many, for some overt act committed by herself, in 
her effort to embroil America. Her disposition 
cannot be altered. Her past history reeks with re- 
vengeful quarrels, and nearly all satiated, by assist- 
ance from outsiders. While constantly asserting her 
power before the world, she is always dependent on 
others. 

Poor misguided allies, you do the work, and your 
dictator takes' the credit and honors. England has 
reached the zenith of her power, and with the ter- 
mination of the war, will gradually see her dissolu- 
tion. Woe, woe to thee, England. This will be your 
last war with nations of Europe. Never more will 
statesmen believe in your sincerity. Your perfidy 
will have alienated from you all your former allies, 
and that greatness with which you have always 
sought to cover your deeds and actions, will fade 
away, and lay bare the skeleton of your past power, 
splendor and — deceit. Blame no one but yourself, for 
the vanity and egotism of your statesmen who 
imagined you were invincible, and always turned a 
deaf ear to the pleadings of other nations against 



59 FOREBODINGS 

your oppression and injustice. This is the sure re- 
ward of all, who in their selfishness, forget there is 
a just God, and in so doing, lose sight of the fact 
that their forgetfulness will react against them, in 
their attempt to accomplish their imaginary destiny. 
This war will differ from all previous conflicts. 
There will be no precedent. Laws of nature will be 
overcome. Laws of humanity will be forgotten or 
ignored. Laws of common decency defied. Existing 
laws will be so distorted, as to be valueless. Only 
one law will prevail, and that will be the law of self- 
preservation and necessity. Air ships of all kinds 
will be used in offense and defense. Germany's 
mighty dirigibles will be of tremednous power and 
benefit to her. But all other nations possess air 
craft of some kind, even though not as effective as 
ours. Mighty indeed will be a battle high in the 
heavens and unfortunate will be the unlucky wight 
who lost. Death swift and sure would be his por- 
tion. But such a fate would not deter others. Ob- 
servation of the enemy's position would be impera- 
tive, and the world is full of heroes, ready to sacri- 
fice their lives at the call of their country, whether on 
land or sea, in the air or under the sea. Submarine 
boats will be used for the first time, and scatter 
death and destruction without warning. The re- 
markable daring of German submarine officers and 
crews' in trial maneuvers, not known beyond the 



FOREBODINGS 53 

Admiralty, will do wonders to equalize Germany's 
naval standing with other nations, and give her 
added security in protecting her North Sea coast 
line, and many indeed will be the English or French 
battle cruisers which will be sunk for daring to ap- 
proach too closely to the German dead line, probably 
without seeing the cause of their destruction, until 
too late. Not even the coast of England will be 
spared, for these daring vessels will boldly seek the 
shores of England on all her coast line, east, west 
and south, and before the war is ended, cause more 
loss to England from this source, than by direct bat- 
tle on the surface. Try to imagine a tiny air craft, 
five or ten thousand feet high, casting explosives 
directly below her on a war craft, and holding it at 
its mercy. Try to imagine a mighty dirigible hover- 
ing over London or Paris, scattering death and des- 
truction far below. These people may accuse us of 
gross crimes by such procedure. But such modern 
methods of warfare will have its good effects, as just 
such evolutions will tend to do more to make obso- 
lete the murderous methods employed for centuries, 
than all manner of arbitration, for the advanced 
methods of destruction, if allowed to continue, would 
in a few years destroy that which has taken cen- 
turies to build up. 

The higher attributes of humanity would give 
place to martial strife, and the doctrine of brotherly 



54 FOREBODINGS 

love preached incessantly. A universal court, en- 
dowed with far reaching power, appointed and sup- 
ported by all the independent governments could be 
established in Switzerland to act on all disagree- 
ments arising between nations, each country en- 
titled to only one vote, and the decision of the ma- 
jority to be binding and final. This may be a dream, 
but if carried out, would supercede in importance 
anything ever attempted at the Hague. 



Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, Minister of the Navy. 



PART THREE 



III 




ET us now see in just which way- 
Russia will attempt to achieve her 
ambition, and the manner in which 
Germany and Austria-Hungary will 
resist their enemy. In the first place, 
Russia will be cut off from all com- 
munication with her allies, and made to feel and 
realize her position in this war is only a cloak, to 
hide the real object of her allies' selfishness. Ger- 
many being attacked on both sides, means a division 
of her forces, with the intention of weakening her 
defense. Such a fact being well recognized by the 
allied commanders, it would be Russia's intention 
to divide her land forces into four divisions and 
simultaneously attempt to enter Germany at her 
most northern border in East Prussia, with the 
object of taking the city and fortress of Konigs- 
berg, and gaining a foothold in the north, whereby, 
with the assistance of her navy, she would be in a 



56 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

position to protect this base and use it as a wedge 
in her operations against the surrounding country. 
At the same time she would make her most master- 
ful drive from Warsaw, using that great city as 
her home base of operation against both Germany 
and Austria-Hungary, and endeavor to enter the 
fertile province of Posen. 

Her operation against Austria-Hungary would 
necessitate the reduction of the fortified city of 
Cracow, and the possession of Lemberg, in the 
province of Galicia, if she was to gain a foothold 
in Austria, with the intention of entering Hungary, 
which reared up a natural barrier in the steep and 
rugged Carpathians. 

These attacks dare not be sporadic, and for Russia 
to mobolize an army of sufficient strength, fully 
equipped, with artillery, munitions of war, and com- 
missary, would require a full thirty days. While 
these preparations' were going on with the infantry, 
artillery and cavalry, the naval forces, such as were 
not in the Black sea division, and which were all, 
or nearly all, at their base in Kronstad and Riga, 
would move down the Gulf of Finland to enter the 
Baltic, and divide forces there, so that a portion 
of the fleet would have access to the North Sea, 
and join the allied squadron to be in a position 
to assist England and France in bombarding the 
German North Sea coast. The navy, being in 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 67 

greater readiness to commence operations, would be 
able to be in fighting trim in a much shorter period 
of time, and be the first to start the annihilation 
of Germanic sea power, as well a(s show her 
vaunted strength and fitness to meet any conditions 
that might arise with her new navy, built since the 
Russo-Jap war. 

But it is the same in war as in all other things. 
Man proposes, but God and right disposes. Ger- 
many, on the other hand, would not have to wait 
to get her forces in readiness. For the last forty 
years, day after day, she has expected just exactly 
what now confronts her, and is not caught unpre- 
pared. Knowing better than her foes the points of 
contact, and having the best facilities in Europe 
for the speedy movement of her troops and mate- 
rial of war, immediately dispatches a sufficient addi- 
tional force to support the forts along her eastern 
border, in the province of East Prussia, from Me- 
mel, Tilset, Insterberg, to the marshy lake region, 
and then down to the great strongholds at Thorn, 
on the Vistula, which shall be Germany's base of 
operation in her invasion of Poland, for her march 
on Warsaw. Germany would take the initial step 
to repel an invasion of any part of her eastern bor- 
der, and with four army corps invades Poland, south 
of the Vistula, with Warsaw as the objective point. 
Before Russia realizes her danger, the German army 



58 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

of invasion would have met and overcome opposi- 
tion as far as Plock, where she is forced to in- 
trench. 

Russia, by this time, has advanced from Warsaw 
to meet the Germans, and both skirmish for posi- 
tion, without a concerted attack. At this period 
Russia dispatches four army corps to invade East 
Prussia near Lotzen, at the head of the Mazurian 
Lakes, where they are met on German soil, the first 
and last time during the war, and, not knowing the 
character of the soil on which they met, becoming 
enmeshed in the treacherous marshes, see disaster 
looming up before them, try to retreat, but in the 
rout which ensues, the Russian army becomes dis- 
organized, and all those not lost in the marshes are 
forced to surrender, having been outgeneraled by 
the German commander. 

While this disaster overtakes the Russians in their 
initial attack on Germany, they fare better in their 
attack on Lemberg, in Austrian Galicia, taking this 
city. But in their attack on Cracow, they are halted 
by superior numbers and driven back over their own 
border. Here they reorganize and make prepara- 
tions to attempt the investment of the mighty fort- 
ress at Przemsyl, before they attempt the siege of 
Cracow. But the investment of Przemysl is not so 
easily accomplished and this fortress, commanding 
the key to Cracow, as well as the passes of the 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 59 

Carpathians, becomes a military sacrifice, holding a 
vast Russian army in suspense, as well as the gar- 
rison behind the forts, until the end of hostilities 
without being lost to Austria-Hungary. 

The German navy, however, has not been idle. 
The entire fleet, with the exception, probably, of 
five or ten cruisers, which may be on the high seas, 
or in the Orient, where we have a small concession 
in the Yellow Sea, are at their base at Kiel, and, 
having access to the North Sea, by way of the 
canal, are prepared to meet any encounter that 
might arise for the protection of her coast or to 
repel an invasion of the enemy. Germany would 
never think of risking her most valuable asset of 
protection by an offensive, ovitnumbered as she 
would be, three to one, by the allied British and 
French fleets, and as the enemies' navies would be 
useless to them, as far as land fighting is concerned, 
Germany would pay but little attention to them for 
the present. 

However, the nation realized that by such a 
course her merchant marine might be paralyzed by 
the stopping of commerce through the English 
Channel, which might possibly become irksome, 
causing the Admiralty to force reprisals without 
endangering its units, by use of the submarines. 
This apparent easiness was due to the fact that 
Germany was aware, while her enemies were not. 



60 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

that approach to the North Sea coast was prac- 
tically impossible. She would keep her fleet intact, 
until such time as it would become necessary to 
use it. 

But on the Baltic it was different. Here she had 
no one to fear through superior numbers. Entrance 
to the Baltic from the North Sea was tortuous and 
amply protected. Before the Russian fleet was pre- 
pared to leave their roads at Kronstad, Germany 
had mined the entrance to the Gulf of Finland and 
Gulf of Riga and established a patrol of subma- 
rines, thus effectively bottling up the Russian fleet 
in their home waters, where they would remain 
until the end of the struggle, to be captured or 
sunk with the taking of Riga and St. Petersburg. 

Russia learned her lesson in 1904-5, when her 
entire navy was lost to her, through incompetence 
and vanity, not crediting her enemy with power nor 
bravery, and now she will not be so lavish in her 
recklessness with her new navy. Besides, Ger- 
many is not Japan, and no one realized this more 
than Russia. This war would upset many notions 
concerning the power and usefulness of their fleets 
and would prove that the navy, on which all coun- 
tries of Europe placed their greatest amount of 
reliance for protection, as well as offense, would be 
practically useless in this conflict, except for an 
occasional raid now and then, in which ships would 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 61 

not only be damaged, but sunk, with varying suc- 
cess to either side, depending upon speed or arma- 
ment. Besides, Germany was prepared to test the 
efficiency of the submarines, the number of which, 
or the model and mechanism, were unknown to her 
enemies. 

An early opportunity now presented itself. The 
Russian fleet, while attempting to break through the 
mine fields and blockade, paid dearly in the loss of 
two battle cruisers and immediately retired to their 
base. After the loss of these two units Russia made 
no further attempt to reach the sea, but resigned 
herself to the inevitable. German mines and sub- 
marines could be depended on to do the work and 
keep Russia's navy in their home waters, until such 
time as Germany would attempt to capture or de- 
stroy the entire fleet. Eternal vigilance would be 
the price of nullifying this danger. 

Our attention will now be turned westward to see 
how Germany would proceed in Belgium, pitted 
against Belgium, England and France. Immedi- 
ately that war would be declared against France 
and Belgium, German troops would enter Belgium 
in the Province of Liege, with Aachen as the base, 
and directly start the silencing of the vast number 
of modern forts protecting the City of Liege, the 
construction of which was well known to the Ger- 
man Staff, and while they were considered impreg- 



6<2 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

nable and would offer a tremendous resistance, the 
delay of which would cause Germany more uneasi- 
ness than their reduction, which would be accom- 
plished within seven days' time. But seven days 
lost would give France an opportunity to send her 
troops to Belgium's assistance, in their defense, and 
would also allow England to resort to her custom- 
ary tactics of dispatching a few troops and a large 
number of officers, to command the campaign. 
These maneuvers on the part of England would 
serve from the very beginning to sow seeds of dis- 
cord among the French officers and be the means 
of stirring up unrest and dissatisfaction among the 
allies later on. 

The rapid investment of Liege would prove to 
the allies that it would not be a matter of small 
import, united as they were, to check the German 
advance, but they would be compelled to strain 
every endeavor at their command to prevent the 
German army from reaching Brussels, and later 
Antwerp, and eventually open up the road to Paris, 
over the corpse of Belgium. German determination 
to advance rapidly would not be altered, a deviation 
from which would give her enemies more time to 
mobilize and equip for action, which must be pre- 
vented at all hazards. Germany must keep up her 
advantage of preparedness. A second army would 
strike south to attack Namur, while the first army 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 63 

would attempt to reduce Louvain, which would ren- 
der the seat of government at Brussels helpless. 
Louvain would put up a stubborn resistance in the 
defense of her capital, but ere three days passed 
the German first army would take Louvain, while 
one day later would see the fall of Namur and pos- 
sibly Dinant. The terrible punishment which these 
cities would receive during their bombardment 
would cause the allies to evacuate Brussels, to save 
it from a similar fate, and move their archives and 
seat of government to Antwerp, where they imag- 
ined they would be in perfect safety, owing to its 
supposed impregnability. 

Germany would occupy Brussels and proclaim Bel- 
gium a conquest and establish a provisional govern- 
ment, and proceed immediately to attack Antwerp, 
where the remainder of Belgium's army and her 
allies had retired for the defense of the city and 
country. Anticipating a long siege, the allies would 
gather together immense stores and live in security 
while the German army hammered away at the forts. 
But Antwerp was rated the strongest and best de- 
fended fortress in Europe. The taking of this 
citadel in past wars had always been accomplished 
by lengthy sieges and a tremendous loss of life. 
Utter desperation of the besieged would entail a 
rigorous and stubborn resistance, while to Germany 
the possession of this most important and strategic- 



64 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

ally located city meant the subjugation of the king- 
dom. Modern science in Germany had brought out 
marvels in instruments of devastation and power. 
Germany's lead in ordnance and her ability to pro- 
duce the requisite pieces needed, at the psychological 
moment, was the primary cause of her rapid ad- 
vance to the gateway of Antwerp, and she would 
be determined to reduce the outlying forts as rap- 
idly as she had accomplished the reduction of Liege. 
Her advantage lay in her superior ability to move 
the troops and to handle the ordnance, as yet un- 
known to her enemies. 

English and French officers considered themselves 
safe but Belgium, who already saw her territory 
lost to her, through adherence to British advice, 
did not feel so secure. Having expected to receive 
assistance from her powerful advisors, she is now, 
on the contrary, defending them, as well as herself. 
No doubt Belgium already regrets that she did not 
listen to Germany but the mighty weight of that 
one word, Power, misled her to destruction. 

After one week's bombardment the outer ring of 
forts would begin to fall, and knowing that if the 
city itself received the same punishment, the end 
would mean more than the fall of the city, as the 
besieged would probably face extermination with 
the destruction of the city. Poor Belgium, her folly 
was' now to receive the bitterest blow of all. Eng- 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 65 

land must not lose her troops and officers, no matter 
who else did. The loss of Antwerp was imminent, 
and that Germany should not benefit by the immense 
stores within its walls, at the command of the Brit- 
ish commander, they would be ordered destroyed. 
Further resistance being useless, Belgium would be 
persuaded to evacuate the city, under pretense of 
saving it, and the whole allied army would move 
southward toward France, by way of Ghent and 
Bruges, so that, cut off in their retreat, they would 
still have Ostend to fall back on, where they would 
be protected by the guns of the British fleet long 
enough to take them aboard and avoid the ignominy 
of falling into the hands of the German commander. 
The expected happened. Antwerp fell within ten 
days and the victorious German army assisted the 
city authorities' to save it from the hands of the 
vandals who had deliberately attempted to burn it. 
After hurriedly picketing the city, the army con- 
tinued in pursuit of the fleeing allies, who divided, 
a portion going to Ghent while the balance went to 
Bruges. The advancing Germans arrived before 
Ghent, which, after a slight rearguard resistance, 
was entered. But the enemy had fled to the French 
border. The other branch of the Germany army 
pushed forward to Bruges and met the same result. 
Bruges was passed by in the allies' mad rush to 
reach Ostend and safety. German troops then occu- 



66 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

pied Bruges and pushed onward to get the fleeing 
army at Ostend but arrived too late, as they were 
carried away by the allied French and British fleet. 
Germany established headquarters at Ostend and 
reached the sea. 

Belgium was now lost to Europe as an indepen- 
dent kingdom. Old King Leopold might justly turn 
in his grave at the mess his successor made of it. 
The royal family would now seek a haven of refuge 
in England, which was all the consolation they 
would receive. The situation for England was not 
very pleasant. England, with all her boasted 
strength and power, would never be able to re- 
store to Belgium that which her advice had lost 
to that nation, through her own fear of Germany. 
England was not fighting some defenseless nation 
this time but was pitted against her equals, fighting 
to maintain their vested rights, unhampered by any 
domineering power, whose only motto was, "Thus 
far and no further." Germany refused to be cowed. 
British bluff was of no avail to Germany's full 
hand. England was going to be made to rue the 
day, in sackcloth and ashes, her unnecessary en- 
trance into this quarrel. 

The conquest of Belgium had taken forty-five 
days, which had disarranged Germany's original 
plan of campaign and given her enemies ample 
time to guard their own borders, while the conquest 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 67 

of Belgium forever precluded any possible chance 
of any of the allied enemies 1 ever reaching German 
soil from that direction. Armies are only flesh and 
blood and all needed a rest. 

So, while the northern army had done its duty 
and accomplished what was expected of them, let us 
see what was being done by the southern army, on 
the Lorraine-Alsace border. 

Just as rapidly as Germany acted on her Russian 
border and in Belgium, just so rapidly did she get 
her fifth army in readiness at Metz and Mulhausen, 
and pushed forward from both points to attack Ver- 
dun and Belfort. Now, to reach Verdun necessi- 
tated overcoming the difficulties of penetrating the 
dense forest of Argonne, while to reach Belfort 
would mean the scaling of defenses of natural bar- 
riers in the Vosges mountains. Each of these two 
armies would divide. The Metz contingent, ad- 
vancing against Verdun and Nancy, both extremely 
well fortifified, while the Mulhausen army advanced 
on Belfort and Epinal, even more strongly pro- 
tected. The object of these maneuvers was two- 
fold: To gain a footing on French soil and to 
take possession of France's only deposits of iron 
ore and her best supply of coal. The taking of 
these natural resources would mean a great deal to 
France's economic welfare and for that reason 
would be stubbornly resisted. To advance into 



68 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

French territory as far as Verdun, Bar-le-Duc and 
Belfort in the southern campaign would consume 
forty-five days of severe fighting, with serious re- 
sults to Germany as well, but the plans of the Gen- 
eral Staff would be carried out and, each side hav- 
ing intrenched, to protect their respective positions 
would take a breathing spell for a short time before 
attempting to advance. The advantage was all in 
the favor of Germany, for nowhere had the allied 
army been able to reach German soil, whereas Ger- 
man troops' occupied all of Belgium, a large part of 
Russian Poland and were safely in France on the 
south and strongly intrenched on the northern bor- 
der. 

While taking this hard-earned rest, Germany 
would prepare the way for the southern investment 
of Paris, which would force France to throw her 
entire army between Orleans, on the south, and her 
northern border, where the combined naval forces 
would be of no assistance, and serve to cut off any 
attempt of the allies to force troops northward from 
Bordeaux and Marseilles to come to the relief of 
the northern army. Under this plan of campaign 
Germany would intrench her position all along the 
southern line of resistance from Belfort and Besan- 
con to Dijon, thus cutting off supplies from Creu- 
sot, France's center of manufacture for arms, large 
and small, and munitions of war, which would 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 69 

force her to receive her supplies from her ally, 
England, and with Germany's line of intrenchments 
drawn from Dijon to Orleans and Le Mars, thus 
keep open her line of communication with home on 
the south. 

The object gained would be the division of France 
almost in the center, thus cutting off southern 
France from receiving any assistance from the main 
army and emphasize more strongly the impotence 
of their navy, for assistance in their land engage- 
ments. To accomplish the investment of Paris from 
the south would demonstrate several questions vital 
to the government of France, as well as to the world 
at large. 

First, the utter dependence upon neutral coun- 
tries for munitions of war, as well as foodstuffs, and 
upon her ally, England, for assistance in repelling 
invaders. The former would be possible only by 
the greatest crime of modern times, that of seeing 
a country whose avowed intentions are supposed to 
be neutral straining every energy of its resources to 
manufcature and ship overseas to England and 
France, to those ports where these shipments could 
be discharged in safety, vast amounts of supplies 
for one belligerent, to the utter exclusion of the 
other, thereby denying in its essential points the 
good will toward all that the neutral countries in- 
tended to convey in their proclamation to the world 



70 BEGINNING OF EASTERN 

and show conclusively that proclamations of neu- 
trality were a mere sham and pretense to cover 
their feelings of hostility against one of the bellig- 
erents; or to surreptitiously create an era of pros- 
perity in their country, with utter disregard for the 
real consequence which such a course would entail. 
This might mean a weakness on the part of the 
government so amenable or it may mean the ascend- 
ancy of commercial interests, as exploited by large 
corporations, over mere laws enacted for the na- 
tional welfare. 

By pursuing such a course not only does it tend 
to alienate the good will of a powerful nation but 
it also serves' to prolong the struggle, the horrors 
of which would be the theme of all enlightened peo- 
ple for its speedy ending. 

Second, both England and France would have to 
depend for their reinforcements on their colonial 
possessions, which would bring to Europe all man- 
ners of people from entirely different races, whose 
fighting instincts differ from the Caucassian races 
and whose lust for blood would greatly endanger 
the allied discipline and morale, by the indiscrimi- 
nate mixing of their troops, in a position of equality. 
A white man's antipathy for any other color, su- 
perior or inferior, is too well known to receive any 
mention from me, and would be the means of creat- 
ing mutiny and discontent in their ranks, if placed 



AND WESTERN CAMPAIGNS 71 

on a parity with each other. 

Another fact that will stand out prominently is, 
that the novelty of travelling long distances from 
their home, to see the sights, will wear away, espe- 
cially when they are convinced that of them are 
expected the most arduous duties and perilous' posi- 
tions and become the brunt of the advance lines, 
to safeguard the home contingent, who would 
achieve all the glory and benefits of their valor and 
heroism. 

Such a course would result in vast benefit to 
Germany and be the means of forcing an earlier 
victory and consequently a more rapid accomplish- 
ment of the main object aimed at. In times past 
it has always been the habit of foreign residents 
to organize a legion, distinct from the main army, 
but allied to it and really forming part and parcel 
of the country, to take active part in all engage- 
ments against the enemy, utterly disregarding the 
laws of their home country, which are neutral, and 
to their eternal shame and disgrace. Such com- 
batants should be refused their birthright and made 
to realize that they cannot serve two masters. 
Either be a patriot to their country or be branded 
as a hireling and classed among the lowest order 
of criminals. 




PART FOUR 
PART IV 

OW let us return to our eastern bor- 
der and see how we will deal further 
with Russia, to prevent her from ren- 
dering any assistance to her allies or 
prevent her from advancing on Ger- 
man soil. When Germany defeated 
Russia's attempt to enter East Prussia and met her 
overwhelming defeat in the loss of her second 
army, Germany prepared to follow up her advan- 
tage with her victorious troops and march north- 
ward to take the Baltic provinces and occupy Libau 
and Riga, sinking whatever part of the fleet lay 
there, keeping well along the coast so as to be 
under the protection of her navy, which, since the 
bottling up of the Russian navy in their home roads, 
would have free and unhampered access to all 
affluents of the Baltic, and endeavor to march on 
to St. Petersburg, thus forcing the government to 



74 ENTRANCE OF TURKEY 

move to its original capital at Moscow and keep 
her position isolated. 

These maneuvers would serve to awaken Russia 
to her folly and convince her more emphatically 
than any argument that she would have to depend 
solely upon her own resources and that she had 
become the fifth wheel in the British diplomatic 
carriage, from which she might expect no tangible 
results or assistance. Such an awakening would 
naturally arouse all the pent up rancor of Slavic 
hatred for such treatment and cause her to cast her 
eyes southward toward the goal of her life-long 
ambition and attempt to secure by her own efforts 
the pearl of the Mediterranean and establish in 
Constantinople the capital of all Russia, and what 
was of equal importance, an all the year haven in 
warm waters for her fleet. The Greek church, of 
which Russia was the head and front, would have 
a suitable home and vie with Rome the splendor 
of her belief, and re-establish the church in the city 
of its inception. Such a desire would now animate 
Russia, seeing that England, who had always vio- 
lently opposed such a course, was now too busy 
with her own affairs to interfere with Russia's 
ambition, and Russia would, by some overt act, 
seek a quarrel with Turkey, whom she imagined 
would be at her mercy. 



INTO CONFLICT 75 

A declaration of war would be the result and 
with her Black Sea fleet she would attempt to force 
a passage through the Bosphorus (just as though 
the Turks would be asleep) and gain the city before 
England and France could intervene, to balk her 
intentions, allies though they were. 

This act would embroil other Balkan states, who, 
under promises from Russia, would cast their lot, 
not with the allies, but with Russia only. Roumania 
would be promised Hungarian Transylvania, which 
she has always coveted, while Bulgaria would be 
promised Turkish Adrianople, neither of these two 
kingdoms realizing that the possession of Constan- 
tinople by Russia would mean the overthrow and 
absorption of their territory into the Russian Em- 
pire, for Russia would want full control of the 
territory facing the Black Sea on its western shores. 
While these two states would be misled in their 
enthusiasm to enlarge their boundaries, they would 
lose sight of the fact that their act would open a 
road from Berlin, Vienna and Budapest, direct to 
Constantinople, where the defense of the Darda- 
nelles and the Bosphorus would be in the hands of 
German commanders, owing to a secret treaty with 
Turkey. 

The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, having been 
for hundreds of years the object of European 
jealousies, had been secretly strengthened by Ger- 



76 ENTRANCE OF TURKEY 

man engineers in 1908-9 with the most modern 
ordnance German science could produce and would 
be proof against any assault Turkey's combined 
enemies might bring against her. 

While Russia would attempt to gain her ambi- 
tion in Turkey, with the aid of her Black Sea fleet, 
she would send a portion of her army to assist 
Roumania and Bulgaria in their desires, leaving the 
investment of Constantinople from the interior to 
her dupes, who, IF successful, would be deprived 
of any advantage they might gain. 

While these stirring events would occupy the 
attention of the two Balkan states, Russia would 
be gaining strength to resist the German advance 
on Warsaw and prosecute her own attempt to ad- 
vance in Austria, who would be moving northward 
with an army into Poland, to form a junction with 
Germany in the reduction of the important city of 
Lodz, which would be successfully accomplished. 
Russian troops would be forced to fall back on 
Warsaw, while another Russian army advancing 
from Lemberg would try to force the passes in the 
Carpathians, to enter Hungary. Meeting no suc- 
cess there and repulsed with heavy losses, Russia 
would endeavor to advance on Cracow, but the Aus- 
trian army, outflanking Russia, she would be forced 
to flee to Warsaw after evacuating Lemberg, and 
Galicia, to protect her base against a combined 



INTO CONFLICT 77 

German and Austrian attack, which results in the 
occupation of Warsaw, through the capture of the 
immense chain of formidable fortifications guard- 
ing that city, extending from Riga, Mitau, Kovno, 
Vilna, Grodno and Bialystok from the north, and 
Kielce, Krasnik, Lublin, Radom and Brest Litovsk 
from the south, throwing back the Russian forces 
to their outer defense line of Moscow. 

After nine months of strenuous warfare, and ef- 
fectually shutting off Russia's attempt to take Cra- 
cow or enter Germany from the south, as well as 
clearing Austrian territory of Russian troops, Rou- 
mania's attempt to sieze Hungarian Transylvania 
ends disastrously, for Bucharest is taken by Hun- 
garian troops and Roumania is annexed to Austria, 
who also occupies Russian Odessa. Russia, being 
hard beset by German and Austrian troops, is in 
no position or humor to render Roumania any as- 
sistance, thus meting out to her dupe the same 
treatment Belgium received from England and 
France. 

Bulgaria's attempt to subjugate Turkey also drew 
upon her the united armies of Austria-Hungary, 
who went to the assistance of Turkey, who espoused 
the cause of Germany and Austria, and any attempt 
by the allied armies against Turkey was an implied 
threat against the security of her friends. Thus 
we find Germany and Austria fighting to prevent 



78 ENTRANCE OF TURKEY 

Russia from accomplishing her desires as well as 
defending the straits leading to Constantinople from 
British and French attack in their desire to fore- 
stall Russia. 

Here we have a spectacle with no precedent in 
history: allies fighting against their avowed enemies 
for one cause while the same allies are fighting 
among themselves to prevent one of their number 
accomplishing another cause. When thieves fall 
out look sharply for some foul reprisal. 

About this same time, after the fall of Warsaw, 
Russian aggression was not so strong and Austria- 
Hungary devoted their attacks to the long-deferred 
subjugation of Servia, who, having been left in 
security all this time, had not anticipated such a 
move so suddenly. After two weeks' attack on the 
defenses protecting Belgrade, Austrian troops en- 
tered the city, stifled the fire which the fleeing 
Servians had started and directly started in pursuit, 
hoping to catch up to them before they would be 
able to enter the fastnesses around Nish, but with- 
out success. Here the king, government and army 
felt safe, but were again compelled to leave their 
haven of rest in the pursuers' hands, retreating to 
their last stand at Uskup. 

The Austrian-Hungarian army, being augmented 
at Nish, proceeded toward Sofia, to distract the 
Bulgars' offensive against Adrianople, who would 



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hurry back to the defense of their capital. The 
Turkish army, being officered by the Germans, 
would follow the Bulgars, who, caught on both 
sides, would be forced to surrender, while their 
king and staff were made prisoners of state to 
Austria-Hungary, the Hungarian government an- 
nexing this conquest and establishing a government 
under a provisional governor. 

The victorious army now turned its attention 
toward Uskup, where the Servian government was 
making its final stand. After putting up a stubborn 
resistance the Servian army was annihilated, while 
their king and chiefs were captured and brought to 
Vienna as ordinary prisoners, without the custom- 
ary parole allowed to officers. 

Thus, about one year after the assassination of 
Austria's heir, through the instigation of Servian 
officials, that country was occupied by her enemy 
and lost all by her cupidity. Austria was avenged, 
but the price did not compensate her for the enor- 
mous losses she sustained in the flower of her young 
men, who gave up their lives for their country and 
the honor of their wronged sovereign. 

Bulgaria and Roumania, who listened to the siren 
voice of Russia, instead of peacefully minding their 
own affairs, were now swallowed up in the mael- 
strom of political necessity and never more would 
there be a Balkan question to disturb the peace of 



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Europe by their petty jealousies and constant quar- 
rels, which would be a fit ending to all nations 
whose ideals were not founded on peace and con- 
tentment. No need to mention Montenegro. She 
was swallowed up for her rashness in assisting 
Servia. 

The victorious German army, after an interval 
of rest at Warsaw and Riga, would now begin to 
advance west and north, never deviating from the 
original plan of the Kaiser's staff, to occupy St. 
Petersburg and Moscow. Beginning the first quar- 
ter of the second year of bitterly-contested warfare, 
the German Baltic army pushes forward for their 
final advance on St. Petersburg. An investment of 
three months would bring this proud city to its 
knees in unconditional surrender to the German 
commander. The royal family and the government 
had fled long before to Moscow, the Imperial fam- 
ily taking up their residence within the walls of 
Kremlin. 

With the fall of St. Petersburg the main portion 
of the Russian navy attempted to break through the 
mine barriers and blockade at Revel, but met an 
untimely end. The sinking of four battle cruisers 
by submarines and the solid formation of the Ger- 
man squadron within a league's distance caused the 
balance of the fleet to surrender. 



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While the northern army was carrying out the 
plans of the general staff without a hitch the 
southern army had left Warsaw for Moscow as the 
objective point, where the entire Russian strength 
was now entrenched, and put forth every energy it 
possessed to stop the victorious allied German and 
Austrian army in their attempt to reach Moscow. 
The Russian army — that is, the units of the army, 
or rank and file — were thoroughly disheartened by 
their constant reverses and had lost all ambition as 
well as confidence in the ability of their command- 
ers, and after a ten-week assault on the outlying 
fortifications, Moscow capitulated. The occupation 
of Moscow was not accompanied by the capture of 
any vast number of troops of the line, as nearly all 
had accompanied the royal family, who fled to Nijni 
Navgorod. 

The victorious Teuton allied army had earned a 
well-needed rest and settled down to enjoy the com- 
forts of city life. The army of occupation at St. 
Petersburg were instructed to remain, pending the 
capture or surrender of the Czar and his family 
at Nijni Navgorod. 

The Russian army was exhausted and would not 
be able to hold out much longer. The once proud 
army of offense, numbering over eighty army corps, 
was now reduced to less than twenty-five, and most 
of these were with the Czar, ready to oppose the 



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German and Austrian strength, which numbered 
around forty army corps, with only one hope before 
them. The prayer was' for a quick victory and a 
speedy return to peace with their powerful neigh- 
bor, who, no doubt, would be just as pleased to see 
the end of a struggle, the termination of which 
would be vastly different to what she had so fondly 
expected almost two years previously. Her eyes 
were now opened to see the cunning net thrown 
out by her allies, to waste her resources, just to 
keep us occupied and our strength divided, so that 
they could benefit thereby. 

It is now necessary to return to our western bor- 
der and see how the plans, as originally intended, 
were carried out in France. After the escape of 
the British army at Ostend and the return of the 
French to their own border the German western 
armies' were once more on the march. Before Eng- 
land had an opportunity to land sufficient troops in 
France, Germany had occupied Lille, Valenciennes, 
Rocroy, Sedan, Rheims and Soissons. The French 
were alarmed and hastily withdrew the government 
to Fontainebleau. 

This advance almost to the outer ring of forts 
around Paris had alarmed England as well as 
France, who saw a speedy disastrous ending to the 
fray, almost in its inception. This caused England 
to land an immense army of occupation in Calais, 



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the result of which would alter the plan of ad- 
vance and cause Germany to intrench her position 
at Soissons, Rheims and Verdun and retreat far 
enough to the French border to prevent the British 
army of occupation from flanking their rear, which 
would cut off the German base. 

The German army would now have only one 
great object in view. The drive to Paris would be 
abandoned for the present, and every endeavor made 
to reach the French coast cities of Dunkirk and 
Calais, on the narrows of the English channel, as 
well as Havre, the possession of which would pre- 
vent any further landing of troops in her rear and 
would force the allied English and French, and pos- 
sibly some Belgian troops, to fall back on Paris, 
for the protection of that city. 

Just exactly as the German staff had planned, so 
had the maneuvers brought this to pass. The op- 
posing armies entrenched themselves and skirmished 
for the opportunity to annihilate each other. 

Just about this time the Allies declared war on 
Turkey. To divert Germany's attention in this 
waiting game, England, as well as France, rushed 
the best portion of their united fleet to the Mediter- 
ranean for a concerted attack on the Dardanelles, 
with intent to rush a passage in their dash on to 
Constantinople. But this passage is impervious' to 
any onslaught that might be brought to bear upon 



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it. The entrance is heavily mined for the first 
fifteen miles and many of the concealed batteries 
have submerged torpedo tubes, which are utterly 
unassailable. Should it be, by any possible chance, 
that any ship or ships' should run the gauntlet, they 
would all be destroyed at the Hellespont, for noth- 
ing would be able to go beyond that point owing to 
the magnificent secret concealed submerged bat- 
teries with their innumerable torpedo tubes domi- 
nating every fifty feet of passage. The guarding 
of this passage, as well as the construction, was in 
the hands of German officers', who could be de- 
pended upon to resist any attempt the Allied fleet 
resorted to. 

The dash was made, but with disastrous results, 
for they lost the greater portion of their first line 
fleet seemingly without much resistance, sunk by 
torpedoes, submarines, floating and anchored mines, 
while the direct fire from the land batteries was 
only a diversion to allure a concerted passage. The 
Allies did not have the Turks to contend with but 
were faced by Germany, always alert and watchful, 
to safeguard her interests. 

This blow was the greatest received by the Allies 
in the entire conflict, as by it they lost the flower 
of their united naval forces, and weakened their 
position for their home defense. It also proved to 
England that if they could not force the Darda- 



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nelles with a mighty armada of floating steel, she 
need have no reason to fear that Russia would fare 
any better and that Russia would have to give up 
her dream of making Constantinople her capital 
city. 

England's fear that Russia would control the 
Bosphorus and indirectly menace her Asiatic pos- 
sessions were for the present stilled, as England, 
with all her tricky diplomacy, was not broad-minded 
nor generous enough to take her thoughts away 
from her money bags sufficiently long to think that 
all nations worshipped the same god, or that 1 govern- 
ments could possibly have higher ideals than those 
encrusted with gold. This fault is peculiarly domi- 
nant among English-speaking countries. 

The disastrous result of the Allies' attempt to 
force the Dardanelles turned their attention imme- 
diately homeward and to France with their now 
hazardous position on the continent. The entrenched 
northern positions were apparently unassailable. 
Germany did move her forces closer to Paris from 
the south but the northern positions were strongly 
contested. The entire English army of occupation, 
as well as France's forces, were confined along the 
northern and western border of France and were 
exerting titanic energy to prevent the loss of Dun- 
kirk and Calais', which were the avowed positions 
aimed at by the German forces. Without these two 



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ports Germany would not feel safe to change her 
tactics, as they offered opportunity for a rear flank- 
ing movement. 

For nine whole months the combined Allied forces 
resisted Germany's endeavor to dislodge them from 
their position, with small varying success, but were 
at last compelled to give way through superior ord- 
nance and overwhelming numbers, leaving these 
strategical cities in the hands of the German forces. 
The probable cost to Germany could not be counted 
at less than one hundred thousand lives to achieve 
this victory, which would be of untold value to all 
neutral nations for all future time. 

The Allied armies retreated southward toward 
Soissons, where the German forces had been en- 
trenched from almost the beginning of hostilities, 
awaiting the fall of the channel coast cities. Paris 
was open to the Allies, who had marched their 
entire forces along a line of resistance from Havre, 
Rouen, Beauvais and Compiegne to meet the Ger- 
mans, who were entrenched at Crevecour, Noyon, 
Soissons, Rheims, Verdun and Nancy, giving them 
open communication with home from north and 
west. The final drive was to be centered around 
Soissons. 

The Allied army saw disaster looming up large 
before them. Their forces were exhausted by the 
terrible strain of being so long hemmed in during 



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the past second nine months. Nearly all their sup- 
plies had come from overseas. Now their principal 
ports of entry were closed to them and they would 
be compelled to husband their stores. France and 
England were not self-sustaining countries like Ger- 
many, who did not depend on outside assistance for 
anything, but produced all her national needs. 

France had twenty-five army corps and England 
twelve army corps, desperate with their position, 
opposed to Germany's fifty corps, stretched along 
their line of offense and in the vicinity of Soissons 
was to be the final stand. Never before in the 
known annals of the world had such an enormous 
gathering of forces opposed one another. Never 
before had such instruments of destruction been 
used in warfare. Never before was the movement 
of troops known simultaneously to each other, 
through air craft, wireless and telephone as now, 
and never before in the history of nations was 
RIGHT fighting against might and selfishness, jeal- 
ousy and greed for world power, as now. Germany 
would fight to the last man and the end of her re- 
sources to keep forever FREE the natural high- 
ways of the seas for all the world, without let or 
hinderance, that would forever remove the constant 
menace to all nations dependent on their unobstruct- 
ed use in the welfare of their national life and 
well being. The Allied forces could already read 



88 ENTRANCE OF TURKEY 

the writing on the wall, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, 
Urpharsin," and saw the dissolution of their em- 
pires. They would not believe in the charity of 
Germany. They would not believe that Germany 
would forego the fruits of her victories. They did 
not believe that Germany would apply the Golden 
Rule toward nations as' accepted by theological stu- 
dents. Their hearts were closed to all instincts of 
mercy, and they naturally imagined that Germany 
had the same hard heart. With such thoughts in 
their minds they would fight with desperation, never 
dreaming that Germany would ever again try to 
Germanize a conquered nation with disposition and 
speech directly opposite their own. 

The lines were drawing closer and closer each 
day, with the Allies on the defensive. They imag- 
ined the opposing forces about equal. The last 
great drama of the world's war was about to close. 
Germany met the enemy fairly and squarely ten 
miles south of Soissons. The Allied army had grad- 
ually drawn in their forces to make a final attempt 
to break through the German wedge, fully expecting 
to accomplish their object. The Germans met them, 
as expected, and more. The Allied vanguard was 
overcome by superior numbers' and outflanked. Be- 
fore they could recover from these maneuvers they 
were surrounded and the entire French army and 
British army of occupation were forced to lay down 



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their arms in unconditional surrender, or be anni- 
hilated. 

The battle of Soissons will always be remembered 
as the greatest in the world's history, with over 
eighty-five army corps contending, and that to Ger- 
many's method of militarism and preparedness was 
due the successful termination of this battle, in their 
favor. 

France was through with resistance and asked for 
peace, while England, in her vanity, attempted to 
lock herself up on her islands and continue the 
struggle. The loss of her army of occupation, com- 
prising the flower of her strength and her best offi- 
cers, who were all prisoners of war, deprived Eng- 
land of her dependable commanders, and while it 
should have served to awaken her to her folly, in 
reality acted exactly opposite and was as a red flag 
to an angry bull. Her vanity was not yet pierced, 
even if her armor was shattered, and in her wanton 
contempt for everything not English, she imagined 
she still had a chance to bring victorious Germany 
to her way of thinking. In one of the American 
states there is a byword, "I am from Missouri and 
must be shown." So Germany set about to show 
England all that was necessary. 




The Royal Guard House at western end of Unter den Linden, and 

Exclusive Club of Officers of the Guard and all those high in the 

Naval or Military Service. 



PART FIVE 




HE great conflict was now nearing the 
end, after almost two years' duration. 
The victorious German army had 
overrun all of Russian Poland, the 
Baltic provinces, taken Riga and St. 
Petersburg, while the German-Aus- 
trian forces were safely enjoying the comforts of 
Moscow. Russian vandalism had attempted to carry 
out the same tactics that confronted Napoleon in 
1812, when the city was burned, but the German- 
Austrian forces, by their prompt activity and better 
discipline, prevented the conflagration and saved 
the city, not only for their own protection but as 
a warning to Russia not to needlessly destroy works 
of art precious to her national history. The Im- 
perial family had fled to Nijni Novgorod, which 
was to be the final stand of the Russian army. 
Russia was exhausted and anxious to conclude 
peace, weary of being the fifth wheel in the Britisn 



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diplomatic carriage and now painfully aware that 
in the entire struggle of nearly two years she had 
never been able to receive a particle of aid from 
her French ally and Europe's powerful dictator. 

Within a few days the entire Russian army was 
invested on all sides at Nijni Novgorod and, seeing 
retreat cut off in all directions, the Czar, to save 
his brave followers from a gruelling fire and the 
horrors of another great battle, sent out a flag of 
truce and in person surrendered his sword and 
legions to the allied German and Austrian hosts 
in unconditional surrender. The Czar and his en- 
tire staff were soon on their way to Berlin to accept 
the forced hospitality of the Kaiser, pending the 
outcome of peace negotiations. 

The meeting of the Czar and the Kaiser was 
pathetic. Both wept; the Kaiser, with joy at the 
end of the conflict, and the Czar, with humiliation. 
The Czar and family were given the freedom of 
the Palace, and for the first time in his life experi- 
enced the joy of living without fear in his heart, to 
come and go, and feel that even though a prisoner 
of state, he enjoyed God's greatest blessing of per- 
sonal liberty, entirely untrammeled. 

Germany was now relieved of an all-powerful 
enemy on her eastern border and was thus in a 
position to turn her attention to the west. While 
this all-important event was transpiring, that elimi- 



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nated Russia as a unit of contention, even now 
more momentous events were occupying the west- 
ern cohorts. 

The great battle before Soissons had ended dis- 
astrously to the French, British and what was left 
of the Belgians, and the greatest battle of modern 
times was now a mere matter for historians or 
something for posterity to conjure with. 

The city of Paris, which had long been invested 
from the south, was' also ready to capitulate, and 
within ten days after the battle of Soissons, with 
the loss of her main army, Paris was a second time 
within fifty years occupied by her ancient enemy. 

But what a contrast ! 

The futility of risking another siege was aban- 
doned. Modern science today would have ruined 
the beautiful city on the Seine in a bombardment, 
so the new government put up no resistance and 
surrendered the city without malice. 

With the fall of Paris came more tangible de- 
mands for peace. But great events had happened 
in France within the few months prior to the Ger- 
man entry into Paris. The volatile French had re- 
ceived a rude awakening. The people cried out 
against the government, and the revolution that 
ensued had overthrown the republic, and by pop- 
ular acclamation a Bourbon prince was re-estab- 
lished on the throne of his ancestors. This act 



94 INVASION OF ENGLAND 

was very pleasing to the German government and 
helped considerably to mitigate the punishment of 
France, as the German nation had pre-determined 
to make France suffer for her folly. 

Upon the French king surrendering to the Crown 
Prince of Germany, France was immediately given 
to understand that outside of small territorial con- 
cessions, the new kingdom would remain intact, 
and that Germany would prove her friend in assist- 
ing her to build up her broken finances and ruined 
industry. This was much more than the French 
nation had expected, and was received amid gen- 
eral rejoicing. 

After the surrender of the British army of occu- 
pation a more concerted and determined attempt 
was made to bring England to her knees. With 
this end in view, Germany determined to invade 
England, especially after the destruction of the 
Mediterranean fleet while attempting to force the 
Dardanelles, in order to reach Constantinople be- 
fore Russia, with the sole aim of crowding out any 
possible chance that Russia might force the Bos- 
phorus and claim the eastern key to the Mediter- 
ranean sea, by right of priority of occupation. Such 
an event would be wholly against all reason from 
a British viewpoint, and from a diplomatic stand- 
point, ruination to British Indian interests. 



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The German admiral left Calais and Dunkirk 
with two separate divisions of his fleet, which had 
been preserved in safety pending a greater equaliza- 
tion of sea power, and shortly after encountered 
the British channel squadron off the Solent, about 
equally divided as to armament and tonnage. 

After a terrific fire from both sides, during which 
the British lost two-thirds of their opposing fleet 
and Germany a goodly portion of hers, it was seen 
that the German admiral had the advantage, and 
the remaining British vessels surrendered. 

Consternation now seized the British, for within 
three days Germany landed two army corps, and 
Portsmouth and Southampton fell easy victims to 
the invading army. The German admiral then dis- 
patched another fleet to the Irish Sea to follow up 
his plan of aggression, and attempt to force a battle 
with the home fleet, which was protecting Liver- 
pool, the last open port England had with overseas 
trade. 

The meeting of the opposing fleets occurred off 
Holyhead and the British fleet suffered a worse 
fate than did the Channel fleet. German subma- 
rines were once more on the front and were the 
chief cause of the defeat. The German losses were 
comparatively light, in consequence. The signal 
service rendered Germany by the use of subma- 
rines in the Dardanelles and here, off the coast of 



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England, as well as with the Russian fleet before 
St. Petersburg, would make obsolete the giant 
dreadnaughts as a bulwark of security, having dem- 
onstrated the superior service rendered by the 
smaller, lighter and cheaper craft. No doubt all 
nations will welcome the change. 

Before ten days had elapsed, Liverpool and Man- 
chester were entered by six army corps, and the 
march from west and south began toward London. 
The unexpected had happened. England, so long 
immune to invasion, was in no position to resist 
the invaders. At Birmingham, the British made a 
stand and were overwhelmingly defeated, mainly 
owing to the rawness of their army, as all her 
trained men and officers were placed hors du com- 
bat on French soil. In the meantime four more 
army corps had been landed at Southampton, and 
joined the southern army of invasion on the road 
to London, which now, cut off from west and south, 
made a final attempt to stand off the inevitable. 
Within the week German troops were stationed all 
over London, and the English people sued for peace, 
the first time since they lost the fight with United 
States in 1815. 

The royal family had fled to the fastnesses of 
the Scottish Highlands. It was useless to try to 
bring them back, as the king was not so important 
a factor as the parliament, which, being in tele- 



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graphic touch with their sovereign, acquiesced in 
the desires of the people, and a peace conference 
was suggested, to which France and Russia assented. 
Without much deliberation it was decided that 
Washington, United States of America, would be 
acceptable to all, to which Germany consented. 

Meanwhile German troops would occupy London, 
Liverpool and Southampton in England, Moscow 
and St. Petersburg in Russia, and Paris in France, 
until such time as peace was concluded. 

It was agreed that each government was to ap- 
point two commissioners and one secretary, with 
full power to act, subject to confirmation by their 
ruler only. The government at Washington was 
immediately approached on the subject and accepted 
the honor conferred. The President of the United 
States was then chosen by all the governments con- 
cerned to act as president ex-officio of the con- 
ference, and all questions in dispute to be left to 
him as a court of last resort, and his decisions to 
be binding and final. The government at Wash- 
ington then, through its Congress, at the request 
of the President, tendered the Conference the use 
of the Congressional Library auditorium and the 
private offices adjoining. 

The opening day was eagerly looked forward to 
by the Press of the civilized world, who had their 
representatives on the ground to catch all the de- 



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liberations of the peace conference, so that it could 
be submitted as quickly as possible to their various 
publications, and through them, to the world at 
large. However, as the appointed day approached, 
it was decided that the first day's deliberations only 
would be open to the public and the general press, 
as on that day the digest of the demands would be 
submitted and the most important speeches given. 
The following days only one reporter for each coun- 
try represented would be allowed. The diplomatic 
reason involving this procedure was that the con- 
ference could handle a few with greater ease, if it 
became necessary to lend secrecy to some point at 
issue, pending confirmation from their governments. 
All vital points now being agreed upon by all 
concerned, the opening day was anxiously awaited. 
Being so convenient to the social and intellectual 
centers of the American seaboard, a vast conflux of 
the more fortunate members of the elite were on 
hand to witness the opening session of a peace 
conference destined to live forever as the most im- 
portant meeting of modern times, especially con- 
cerning the momentous principle involved, which 
was to bring a lasting peace to the peoples of 
Europe and open up a new era of prosperity for 
all those whose nations had been so long torn by 
internal strife. 



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The peace commission, upon assembling in the 
city of Washington, were composed of the delegates 
from each of the nations engaged in the world's 
late unpleasantness, and represented Germany and 
her allies, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, as the vic- 
tors. The conquered nations represented England, 
France and Russia, Belgium, Servia, Bulgaria, Rou- 
mania and Montenegro. While Japan was allowed 
a delegate, it was more a matter of courtesy, to 
hear the deliberations and not to partake in them, 
but solely to show her the rashness of entering into 
unholy alliances with Christian nations, in their de- 
sire to use the Orient to further their schemes of 
aggrandizement, without giving anything in return. 

Japan learned her lesson too late to prevent her 
spending lives and treasure, but it is presumed she 
will forever remember the treatment accorded her, 
and avoid in the future any more entanglements 
proposed by European diplomats. 

The hour drawing near for the beginning of for- 
malities, every one was seated according to his 
political importance around the large rectangular 
table provided for the occasion. The auditorium 
was gala with the flags of the countries represented, 
as well as the United States, and elaborately deco- 
rated with palms and flowers, the gift of Congress. 
The elite and beauty of the nation were in formal 
attendance, and cast over the audience a feeling of 



100 INVASION OF ENGLAND 

joyousness that the beginning of the end was at 
hand. 

The head of the table was reserved for the Presi- 
dent of the United States, as chairman ex-officio. 
At the right side of the President sat Germany, 
Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Opposite sat Russia, 
France and England. The reason Belgium, Bul- 
garia, Roumania, Servia and Montenegro were not 
represented in the conference, was because these 
kingdoms no longer existed, nor had anything to 
arbitrate, having become, through annexation,- as a 
conquest, part and parcel of those victorious coun- 
ries now about to make their demands from Russia 
France and England as to the price of peace. 

At the appointed hour of two p. m. the great 
doors of the assembly room opened and His Excel- 
lency, the President, was announced. A hush per- 
vaded the audience, eager to catch every word. 
The president walked rather briskly and seemed in 
the best of spirits. It was easily apparent that he 
realized the great importance of this gathering and 
just what it portended. As he approached his seat, 
all arose, bowed cordially, while the President 
greeted each one singly and then, still standing, 
addressed these words to his audience: 

"Gentlemen of this peace conference : The gratifi- 
cation I feel at being appointed chairman ex-officio 
of this vastly important conference, and the con- 



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fidence reposed in the government of the United 
States, through its President, by the great European 
nations, merits a few words preliminary to the 
opening of your deliberations. I want you all to 
feel that, while the United States government was 
sorely tried throughout the late unpleasantness, that 
we had to pursue our course of unarmed neutrality, 
being on terms of friendship and good will with all 
the nations concerned, and that we are deeply grieved 
at the enormous loss of life, spent to determine 
your vested rights, as you saw it. In this mighty 
clash of arms all precedents of previous warfare 
were voided, all tenets of international law violated, 
and treaties of neutrality trodden under the heavy 
heel of necessity. Might was right. Kingdoms 
have fallen as though built of cards, and human 
jealousies raised to the highest pitch of excitement. 
All principles of humanity and brotherly love, so 
long fostered and raised to the highest pinnacle by 
our modern thought and enlightened education, 
were debased or forgotten in the mad rush to anni- 
hilate each other. Uncontrolled licentiousness ran 
riot, leaving its foul imprint on society, and men 
were transformed into brutes. But to all things 
there is an end. In this case, to the victor belong 
the spoils. Now that strife has ceased and quiet- 
ness once more holds the millions, still in arms, 
until this conference is concluded, I sincerely trust 



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that the victors, as represented on my right, will 
be as lenient as is compatible with their dignity and 
sense of justice. 

"It is not for me to inquire into the justice of 
either side of your quarrels. However, I cannot 
refrain from mentioning that nearly all neutral na- 
tions suffered equally with you, and are thankful 
that the former order of "Peace on earth, good 
will toward men," will once more prevail over the 
civilized world. Should any of you in any way 
desire the settlement of any question at issue, and 
refer it to me for final acceptance and adjudication, 
I trust that you will understand that I will only 
answer such questions in such manner as finds a 
precedent in American law and justice, from a 
purely American viewpoint, and that I will not be 
biased either way in any contention that arises. 

"My sole desire is that you gentlemen will con- 
clude your deliberations' with all dispatch, that 
Europe may return speedily to commerce, husbandry 
and lasting peace. May the God we all reverence 
look down upon us and guide us in the duties dele- 
gated to each of us, so that all mankind may be 
in a position to bless His Name. 

"Gentlemen, I call this assembly to its duties, 
and personally ask of Germany to show as much 
leniency as possible." 

Here the President sat down, and all the rest did 
the same. 




The Royal Palace on the River Spree. This magnificent Palace is 650 
feet long and 380 feet deep. 



PART SIX 



VI 






HE German Chancellor, who repre- 
sented the Kaiser, then arose and ad- 
dressed himself to the President: 

"Your Excellency, on behalf of their 
Imperial Majesties of Germany, Aus- 
tria-Hungary and the Sultan of Tur- 
key, I wish to thank you for your kind words, and 
on our part can assure you that our demands from 
each of our late adversaries will not be such as 
would offend your sensibilities and sense of justice, 
nor should they offend our brother nations. 

"This quarrel was thrust upon us, and surrounded, 
as we were, on all sides by powerful enemies and 
deprived of an ally, we were compelled by our geo- 
graphical position to use the utmost latitude in de- 
fending ourselves from utter annihilation. 

"In our arrangements for this conference we have 
insisted that only England, France and Russia be 
represented in the deliberations, because the other 



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belligerents have lost their entity. I have been em- 
powered by our allies of Austria-Hungary and Tur- 
key to be their spokesman in this assembly and 
under these conditions will lay before you our de- 
mands. 

"However, before touching on this subject, there 
is another matter which I will endeavor to explain, 
that there should be no doubt concerning the origin 
of this stupendous upheaval, that has left its im- 
print on nearly every family in Europe, and mourn- 
ing for some loved one over almost the entire 
Christian world. I will state as concisely as pos- 
sible the only reason why Germany was drawn into 
a war which we did not want, so posterity, as well 
as the living, may not misjudge us. It seemed to 
all, from the very beginning of hostilities, that the 
consensus of public opinion was against Germany, 
and that we wanted war and were eagerly looking 
for a pretext. This came from the opinions of the 
general press, who misled their readers, and who 
were in no position to understand that most of 
these opinions were uttered with the malicious pur- 
pose that their utterance was desired to create in 
the minds of the public. For forty years Germany 
has labored assiduously for peace, gaining strength 
commercially, and living in amity with all the world. 
It is well known that in some instances, while pre- 
serving this peace, we submitted more than once to 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 105 

humiliation and drew upon us the anger of our 
own people, as well as the opprobrium of other na- 
tions'. Our beloved ruler, knowing that peace could 
not endure, proceeded to strengthen the nation and 
place it in readiness against the time that hostilities 
might ensue, and by this method create the respect 
that our country was entitled to. This laborious 
and studied operation of protection earned for him 
the sobriquet of War Lord, which was very dis- 
tasteful to him, for this insinuation was as unde- 
served as anything could possibly be. In private 
life his Majesty has always had the fear of strife 
in his heart, and the fear of Gad always before him, 
dreading the day that would tear Europe to its very 
foundations. His great foresight and this prepared- 
ness justified itself, for when the lightning struck, 
it meant instant activity. 

"The first act, and by far the most serious, was 
the cutting of our cables, which lay in the narrow 
English Channel, so that we had no communication 
with overseas nations, and therefore could not get 
official data to our neutral friends, who imagined 
by our silence that we gloried in the prospect ahead 
of us. Being surrounded on all sides by adversaries, 
the public, not having our side of the controversy, 
were led to believe us the aggressors, through the 
garbled reports that were flashed all over the world. 
Until the very last the people did not realize that 



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every dispatch from Europe, no matter if emanat- 
ing from St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Paris, Ber- 
lin, Vienna or London, was stopped by the British 
censor. Wireless messages suffered the same fate. 
The private governmental notes of the United States 
to its European ambassadors, and vice versa, were 
brought to the British censor. 

"Under these conditions, how could we presume to 
set our cause before a discriminating public? The 
thousands of brilliant victories for the allies and 
the equally thousands of crushing defeats for us 
on land and sea, are now only too apparent that 
the news was misleading, and so given out for the 
sole purpose of creating sympathy for themselves, 
and attempting to stir up trouble with neutral coun- 
tries. 

"The assassination of the heir to the Austrian- 
Hungarian throne occurred jointly with his beloved 
wife, in the capital of one of his country's' prov- 
inces, by the hired tools of Servian conspirators, 
and when Austria-Hungary called upon Servia to 
give up the conspirators to justice, had that nation 
complied, this untold misery and suffering and deva- 
station would never have occurred. His Majesty, 
Emperor Francis Joseph, had dearly earned the 
title of Man of Many Sorrows. That, with at- 
tempts to assassinate, the mysterious disappearance 
of his gifted brother, the violent death of his only 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 107 

son, Prince Rudolph at Mayerling, the assassina- 
tion of his beloved wife, Empress Elizabeth, the 
mystery surrounding an unrecognized daughter, the 
violent death of his brother Maximillian, the insan- 
ity of his sister, and finally, the assassination of his 
nephew and heir, together with his princess, were 
more than falls to the lot of the average man. His 
personal sorrows were following him in his old age, 
to the verge of the grave, and his desire at the last 
moment for revenge was all that was left to him. 
Any other person would have long before fallen 
under the weight of such afflictions, but monarch s, 
who guard the lives and welfare of their countries, 
are loath to plunge their nations into a war for 
personal gratification. 

"The offense was too great this time to be over- 
looked and the nation, not the ruler, demanded sat- 
isfaction. But Servia, egged on by Russian influ- 
ence, refused to comply, so that Austria-Hungary 
declared war on Servia, with the intention of tak- 
ing that justice by force of arms' that was refused 
to her in peace. 

"Neutral countries may question why this quarrel 
should not have been settled by an international 
conference, as was the late Balkan crisis, to which 
I reply, that the Balkan conference decided matters 
of interest to several of the great powers, whereas 
the question at issue between Austria-Hungary and 



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Servia related only to these two countries. The 
declaration of war by Austria-Hungary was fol- 
lowed immediately by the mobilization of troops by 
Russia, who anticipated that this move on her part 
would block the determination of Austria-Hungary 
to seek her rights, but Russia never made a greater 
mistake in all her history. Austria-Hungary was 
seeking justice for a foul wrong, and interference 
by all of Europe would not cause her to deviate in 
her path of revenge. 

"Now, the mobilization of troops by Russia was 
considered a hostile act, threatening the peace of 
Germany, and upon Germany's request to demobi- 
lize her army and declare her intentions, which, 
being flatly refused by Russia, Germany, absolutely 
innocent in the matter, had no other recourse than 
to immediately declare war on Russia, and went to 
the assistance of her ally, Austria-Hungary. 

"This unreasonable act of Russia is the primary 
cause of the great conflict which was soon to draw 
many nations into a war, the consequences of which 
they could not foresee. 

"At the same time that the note went to Russia 
demanding demobilization, France, as the hand-in- 
glove ally of Russia, started mobilizing her troops 
to go to the assistance of Russia should any serious 
development occur. Germany addressed a note to 
France, to declare her intentions forthwith, and the 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 109 

response being delayed, Germany, not wishing to 
lose her advantage of eternal vigilance, immediately 
declared war on France, followed by Austria-Hun- 
gary, and to protect her disadvantage of having 
enemies on both sides of her border, started on the 
road to Paris in the west and St. Petersburg in the 
east. 

"Now, the quickest way to invade France was 
through the buffer state of Belgium, which was 
created by the fear of England and France in 1832, 
after dismembering Holland. In 1870, before the 
late Franco-Prussian war, a treaty of neutrality was 
signed by England, France and Prussia, which pre- 
cluded any invasion of Belgium. Why England was 
included in this treaty is easily apparent: Fear of 
Prussia reaching her beloved channel and looking 
across to watch her coming ins and going outs. 

"However, knowing that the neutrality of Bel- 
gium would be violated by France, Germany made 
overtures to Belgium, promising indemnity for all 
losses to her through reason of invasion, but Bel- 
gium was flatly forbidden by England to counten- 
ance such an act. 

"England, who always allowed other nations' to 
quarrel, and when they were at the end of their 
resources, step in and claim the fruits of their vic- 
tory, was now frightened for herself. She saw a 
menace to her territory, and understanding what it 



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meant to her sea supremacy if Germany reached the 
coast, joined with France and Russia in a war 
against Germany and Austria-Hungary, by which 
her statesmen imagined they could avert the dan- 
ger threatening her isolated and exposed coast line. 

"Thus you may easily see that all Europe was 
involved in a quarrel which really was of no in- 
terest to anyone but Austria-Hungary and Servia, 
which could have been settled by the simple deliv- 
ery of the murderers to Austria-Hungary, or noth- 
ing worse than the annihilation of Servian sover- 
eignty, which started with the murder of Alexander 
and Draga and would have ended with the murder 
of the Austrian heir and his princess. 

"Italy, although allied to Germany and Austria- 
Hungary, refused to stand by her treaty, for diplo- 
matic reasons known only to Germany and Austria- 
Hungary, and issued a proclamation of armed neu- 
trality, to be prepared to resist any invasion of her 
territory by any belligerents. By this course Italy 
evaded the horrors of war and perhaps the loss of 
territory, which showed the wisdom of her council- 
lors and German diplomacy, for in the end she 
will benefit by territorial accession, if she remains 
true to her compact. 

"Russian activity and her old ambition to possess 
Constantinople brought Turkey into the conflict, and 
as self-preservation is the first law of nature, Mo- 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 111 

hammedan or Christian, the western world need not 
be horrified at Turkey proclaiming a holy war 
throughout her provinces against her inveterate 
enemies. From the earliest part of the nineteenth 
century Turkey has been humorously called the 
'Sick Man of Europe,' or 'the unspeakable Turk/ 
owing to his knowledge that his strategical geo- 
graphical position was the envy of his neighbors, 
who in their jealousies of each other, constantly 
feared one might be more favored than the other, 
which kept these nations in dancing attendance on 
the Sultan, like so many nurses, and also forbade 
him to speak of his preferences. But Turkey, at 
last seeing her enemies pitted against their equals 
and knowing the time had arrived for her to throw 
off the yoke of humility, decided to strike back at 
her supposed friends, and attempt to regain by her 
own efforts all that had been taken from her, 
through one pretext or another. 

"The entry of Turkey into this conflict brought 
on another Balkan quarrel. All these petty states, 
once a part of the Turkish Empire, looked for, was 
conquest from each other. 

"Roumania, whose king was murdered by poison 
in the very beginning, although never publicly ad- 
mitted, because he was a Hohenzollern and would 
naturally support Germany, was, under the new 
regime, at last egged on by Russian promises to 



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give her a portion of Austrian Transylvania in re- 
turn for her support. Believing in the greatness of 
Russian promises, and power to support these prom- 
ises, she consented to enter the conflict, with the 
result that her sovereignty has ceased to exist. 

"Bulgaria, although practically Turkish, not sat- 
isfied by her recent annexation of Turkish Roumelia, 
threw her lot in with Russia and suffered the same 
fate as Roumania. 

"It is understood that Servia, the cause of the 
quarrel, has long ceased to exist, after putting up 
a stubborn resistance to maintain her political ex- 
istence as a nation. 

"Touching upon Montenegro, this petty princi- 
pality should never have been allowed to exist as 
a nation. But as all the Balkan states were surrep- 
titiously taken from Turkey as buffer states under 
one pretext or another, so this little principality 
was allowed by sufferance to exist. Her determi- 
nation to subjugate Europe was' a fatal error, as 
this quarrelsome little nation is now for all time 
settled by her subjugation, regardless of Italian pro- 
tests. 

"The main facts now being covered, and our posi- 
tion made clear, I will no longer bear on this sub- 
ject. Suffice to say, that in retaliation for all the 
combined maledictions heaped upon us by our ene- 
mies' and for the enormous losses we incurred in 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 113 

lives, ships and treasure, our gracious Kaiser and 
our allies have arranged to be as lenient as pos- 
sible, inasmuch as it is not our desire to further 
humiliate our late adversaries. We have deter- 
mined that peace without honor shall not sway us 
in our demands and that the United Empire of Ger- 
many shall constitute herself guardian in the future, 
to assure the Eastern Hemisphere of lasting peace 
from misunderstandings emanating among sover- 
eign rulers, but shall in no way lend itself to civil 
strife among her own states or dependencies of 
other monarchies. 

''The underlying principle of the United Empire 
of Germany shall be that monarchies shall always 
exist in the Eastern Hemisphere to the exclusion 
of all other political forms. Also that the brother- 
hood of man shall be possible, through suffrage, 
under a broader constitution, giving all the liber- 
ties to the people of Europe capable of understand- 
ing their desires, and enfranchisement with all land- 
ed holdings, no matter if holdings are only large 
enough to encompass their homes of one hundred 
meters square. 

"This dissertation of our position, preliminary to 
voicing our demands, may serve to make the public 
more familiar with the cause for this conference, 
and attempt to justify our course in the titanic con- 
flict which has now ceased. Returning directly to 



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the matter in hand of our demands from Russia, 
France and England, I will outline in a concise 
way the main points embodying the territorial con- 
cessions, without touching upon the question of 
indemnity. 

"I turn to Russia first, and I may say, most len- 
iently, considering that she was the actual cause 
of Germany having to defend herself from aggres- 
sion in this quarrel, which gave her enemies on 
both sides, and threatened her national existence. 
I may state here now, without reserve, that Russian 
aggression caused us more uneasiness than the com- 
bined armies of England, France and Belgium, in- 
cluding all their colonies, for the reason that they 
(Russia) never knew what a crushing defeat meant 
to them, but immediately filled up their enormous 
losses' with new armies, and, considering the stub- 
born resistance and enormous losses we incurred, 
that we are dealing very gently with her, while we 
have it within our power to retain vastly more than 
it is our aim to ask for. It is our demand that you 
cede to the United Empire of Germany all the con- 
quered territory comprising all of the late kingdom 
of Poland, with all the national treasures taken 
from her at the period of dismemberment, and re- 
lease from custody all captives' of Polish extraction 
now held by you for any political cause, as it is 
our intention to re-establish the kingdom of Poland, 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 115 

with a purely Polish ruler, just as it existed pre- 
viously, and that this kingdom shall become an in- 
dependent state, but part and parcel of the United 
Empire of Germany, with the same rights and privi- 
leges as accrue to all the other component parts of 
the empire. In addition to this we want ceded to 
the kingdom of Poland the provinces of Grodno 
and Vilna, to be forever incorporated into that 
kingdom. We also demand that Russia cede to the 
Kingdom of Prussia as a crown land the Baltic 
provinces of Courland and Kovno and the island of 
Oesel in the Gulf of Riga, and that the capital city 
of Russia shall be Moscow. We also desire that 
the Duchy of Finland and Lapland be given her 
liberty, and established as a separate kingdom of 
Europe, free from Russian domination, with a 
Prince of her own choice, and that all of the prov- 
inces of Trans Caucassia, or all lands lying south 
of the Caucasus Mountains, shall be returned to 
Turkey, including the coast city of Baku. These 
territorial concessions cover our demands from 
Russia, and in view of Germany's right to be more 
severe, are as lenient as is permissible. We make, 
as a suggestion only, that Russia divorce church 
from state for her own future welfare, and give to 
her people a liberal education and plenty of liberty. 
By this course your government will earn the grati- 
tude and respect of her citizens, and all internal 



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dissensions and anarchy will forever disappear, giv- 
ing to your rulers the same freedom of action as 
is universal throughout all enlightened countries. 
The indemnity to be imposed we will be generous 
enough to leave to arbitration, to be held in Switzer- 
land after this conference is ended, this Swiss con- 
ference to consist of such representatives of neutral 
countries as Russia may select. 

"In proportion to the amount of energy expended 
by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, in de- 
fending their borders from Russian invasion, so 
shall the indemnity award be distributed. Our per- 
centages will equalize under a distribution of 45 
percent to Germany, 40 percent to Austria-Hun- 
gary and 15 percent to Turkey, whose only effort 
against Russia was from the sea. 

"The enlightened people of France, embittered by 
the treatment they received during the conflict by 
their government, in the suppression of all news 
relating to the enormous losses', and having lost con- 
fidence in the constitutional form of the republic, 
as carried out by the military, without taking the 
people, their peers, into their confidence, revolted 
against the republican form of government, and by 
general election voted to restore the government 
again to a monarchy, selecting a young Bourbon 
Prince to ascend the throne of his ancestors, amid 
general rejoicing. 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 117 

"We now turn to France with compassion, and 
while the small territorial concessions demanded 
are out of all conformity with the monstrous losses 
received by Germany, to protect our borders in the 
future, make demands of the following conquered 
territory: The department of Haute Saone, Haut- 
Rhin, the department of Vosges and the department 
of Meurthe et Moselle, all on our western border 
of Alsace Lorraine, and the departments of Ar- 
dennes and Nord, bordering on the conquered crown 
land, formerly known as the Kingdom of Belgium, 
as well as a small strip of coast land in Pas de 
Calais extending ten miles beyond the port of 
Calais and ten miles south from the coast, including 
the port of Calais (and Dunkirk). It is with deep 
feeling that Germany is obliged to make these de- 
mands, which she believes is the only reasonable 
mode of lasting peace with France. Just as Aus- 
tria-Hungary cedes to Italy the province of Trent, 
so we demand that France cede to Italy the prov- 
ince of Savoy, lost to Italy in 1859. That the key- 
note of European diplomacy may be confined to the 
Eastern Hemisphere, we demand that all French 
islands bordering on the Western Hemisphere south 
of the present Canadian boundary be ceded to the 
nearest adjacent stable government, allowing France 
to receive such monetary recompense as is agreed 
upon between them, and that any French contin- 



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ental possessions in North and South America be 
disposed of in the same manner to the nearest stable 
government. 

"In the matter of indemnity from France, Ger- 
many will be governed by the arbitration of same 
at the same sitting as will be convened by Russia, 
for the same purpose, along the same mode of pro- 
cedure, the French indemnity to be divided on the 
same basis of energy spent to repel invasion of her 
borders. The percentages will equalize to Ger- 
many 50 percent, to Austria-Hungary 30 percent, 
and to Turkey 20 percent, due to her defense of 
the Dardanelles. All French colonial possessions 
in the Eastern Hemisphere are to remain intact. 

"It will not come amiss to here state to our late 
adversaries, and to the world at large, that all that 
portion of territory so unjustly apportioned to Bul- 
garia, Servia and Greece by the powers in the late 
Balkan squabble, and the principality of Albania, 
has been restored to our ally, Turkey, and that to 
the Kingdom of Hungary is ceded the original 
Kingdoms of Servia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, 
while to Austria is ceded the original Kingdom of 
Roumania, and that Turkey ceded to Greece the 
island of Candia in recompense for her restoration 
of the annexed Turkish provinces of Salonika and 
Janina. 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 119 

"Every government the world over exercises its 
laws and edicts on her own people, and if an alien 
people come to settle in another government, be 
the attraction what it may, that government's laws 
and edicts are as binding on the alien as upon her 
own people, and failure of the alien to observe the 
laws of the country where he has taken up his habi- 
tation are no cause for complaint from that alien. 
Either observe the laws or stay at home. No gov- 
ernment wants mischief-breeders within her terri- 
tory. If their religious belief differs from the alien, 
that is no reason why the alien should condemn it, 
or attempt to proselyte among them, or call upon 
their home country for interference, if treated sum- 
marily for creating dissention among the people of 
his adoption. 

"We now come to the concessions demanded of 
England, whose jealousies fomented the hostilities 
lately decided in favor of Germany's arms and valor. 
From all our late adversaries we have demanded 
slight concessions for our future protection, and 
as a partial recompense for our vast outlay of treas- 
ure, for our fight was with natural foes seeking 
territorial aggrandizement on our borders. But 
from England we will demand absolutely nothing 
for ourselves, as we are not looking forward to ter- 
ritorial gains. Our demands will be of a different 
nature, and such a one that will benefit all the na- 



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tions of the world. We will show that the cause of 
humanity has swayed all our attempts to achieve 
our victories and that sordid thoughts never did 
tempt us in our battles. Our first and last thoughts 
were always on the side of the weak and oppressed, 
to give them relief from their dictators. We have 
come to the conclusion that the demands' we shall 
make ; will be the only way to avoid a future con- 
flict arising from the outgrowth of maritime com- 
mercial activity, and that to insure a lasting peace 
and equal sea rights to the world at large, the fol- 
lowing territorial changes of ownership are of im- 
perative necessity. 

"All island possessions bordering on and adja- 
cent to the United States of America, as the Ba- 
hamas and Bermudas, shall be ceded to the United 
States, allowing England the right to remove all 
her personal property, excepting fortifications and 
all things appertaining thereto. Jamaica shall be 
ceded to the United States under the same condi- 
tions. All other British islands in the Caribbean 
Sea, adjacent to Cuba, shall be ceded to Cuba, un- 
der the same conditions. All British islands ad- 
joining or adjacent to Porto Rico, including the 
Leeward Islands, shall be ceded to Porto Rico, for 
the United States. All other British islands in the 
Lesser Antilles shall be ceded to Venezuela, under 
the same conditions as before mentioned. All other 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 121 

British islands contiguous to South America, on 
the eastern or western seaboard, shall be ceded to 
the country contiguous thereto. To make these de- 
mands more plain and concise, we demand that 
every British island in the Western Hemisphere 
south of the 49th parallel, north latitude, following 
the present Canadian boundary westward, and 135th 
parallel, west longitude, shall cease to be a British 
possession, as they are a menace to Western Hem- 
isphere political conditions, and a source of opulent 
power and defense against all European nations, as 
was shown more than once in the late conflict. 
While we do not demand the withdrawal of Eng- 
land from British Honduras and British Guiana, 
absolutely without recompense, we strongly recom- 
mend their immediate sale to the adjoining Amer- 
ican state. The Dominion of Canada and her islands 
are immune. In the Eastern Hemisphere we de- 
mand that the fortress of Gibraltar shall be dis- 
mantled, leaving free entrance and exit to and from 
the Mediterranean Sea for the shipping of the whole 
world. We cannot emphasize too strongly that the 
high seas shall not be dominated by any nation in 
the future, to the exclusion of ingress and egress 
to nations bordering on such seas. Cypress shall 
be returned to Turkey. Egypt shall be restored to 
Turkey, and English troops returned to British soil. 
The Transvaal and Orange Free State shall be re- 



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turned to the Boers, from whom it was unmerci- 
fully robbed, on account of the ambitions of two or 
three British subjects, allowing them to form their 
own government, without British assistance. Eng- 
land shall re-cede Zanzibar, off the coast of Ger- 
man East Africa, and evacuate Wallfish Bay, on 
the coast of German Southwest Africa. The British 
channel islands shall be ceded to France. 

"This constitutes all our territorial demands 
from England, which shall be accompanied with the 
addition of a money indemnity of four hundred mil- 
lion pounds sterling, and that German troops occupy 
London and Liverpool until the final settlement of 
this indemnity. This direct indemnity from Eng- 
land shall be divided so that Germany receives 50 
percent, Austria-Hungary 25 percent, and Turkey 
25 percent. We make no mention of Australia or 
her adjacent islands, nor of India, nor any other 
British possessions in the Orient, for the reason 
that these possessions do not tend to jeopardize the 
peace of Continental Europe. 

"Germany also wishes to announce to the world, 
that directly after peace is signed, the German Em- 
pire will in the future be known as the United 
Empire of Germany, comprising the Kingdom of 
Prussia, as it existed previously, with the addition 
of provinces ceded by Russia, of Courland and 
Kovno and Oesel; the Kingdoms of Bavaria, Wiir- 



AND PRICE OF PEACE 123 

temburg, Saxony and Poland, with the Provinces 
of Grodno and Kovno, and the Kingdom of Hun- 
gary, with her annexed possessions of Servia, Bul- 
garia and Montenegro, and the Kingdom of Austria, 
with her conquest of Roumania, the Grand Duchies 
of Baden, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hesse-Oldenburg, 
Saxe-Weimar and Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; the Duch- 
ies of Brunswick, Saxe-Meningen, Anhalt, Saxe- 
Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Altenburg; the Principalities of 
Waldeck, Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarz- 
burg, Sonderhausen, Reuss Younger Line, Schaum- 
berg-Lippe, Reuss Elder Line; the Free Cities of 
Hamburg, Liibeck and Bremen, and Calais, with her 
strip of ten miles west and south ; the Crown Lands 
of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Haute Saone, Vosges 
and Meurthe et Mosselle and Haut-Rhin. 

"These, your excellency, and you, my lords', con- 
stitute all the remarks we have to state, and the 
summary of which will prove to you the justness of 
our defense, in the quarrel that was foisted upon 
us. We will now rest from our labors and give 
you every advantage to comply with our demand 
within the specified terms of this truce, which shall 
be for a period of thirty calendar days." 




Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Holhoeg, German Chancellor. 



PART SEVEN 



PART VII 




HE peace conference at Washington, 
after a sitting of twenty-one days, fin- 
ally concluded their labors. Russia 
had consented to all the demands and 
was prepared to sign for her govern- 
ment, when the German Chancellor 
suggested that the Kaiser would look with favor 
upon withdrawing his demands' concerning Finland 
and Lapland, in return for a treaty of alliance, 
offensive and defensive, with the United Empire of 
Germany, for a period of fifty years, and refrain 
from entering into such an alliance with any other 
European nation, and that Germany would inter- 
cede with Turkey to give Russia the freedom of the 
Dardanelles to all her merchant marine and vessels 
of war in time of necessity. 

The great importance of this latter suggestion to 
Russia, coming so unexpectedly from the German 
Chancellor, was immediately assented to, without 



126 FORBEARANCE 

even consulting the home government, when the 
Chancellor slyly added: "It is not my intention to 
take away the sovereignty of Finland and Lapland, 
after promising them freedom, but as there is a 
vast difference between giving on demand, and of- 
fering with a free, open hand, your gain is twofold. 
The love and respect of the people you have so 
generously 'set up' in their independence, as well as 
securing a treaty of alliance, which I have no doubt 
they would be willing to enter into, which would 
give them vast prestige, as well as a powerful pro- 
tector." 

Russia readily consented, and by this stroke of 
diplomacy Germany assured Europe that as far as 
these two great nations were concerned, peace would 
prevail for fifty years, and by this treaty precluded 
any chance of her having to guard her eastern bor- 
ders for a long time. Russia also saw that this 
treaty did not prevent her moving eastward, if such 
were her desires, and realized that she had a power- 
ful ally in her rear, should occasion arise which 
would cause her to guard her western border. More 
important than all, she had gained her life-long 
ambition for easy passage through the Dardanelles, 
not by war, nor by conquest, nor by the aid of the 
great Powers, but by the free gift of German gen- 
erosity. 



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With France, the conference was vastly different. 
She fought every demand with vehemence, realiz- 
ing her great sacrifice if she yielded readily with- 
out a struggle. The Province of Nord, with its 
numerous large cities, while embracing less than 
twenty-five hundred square miles, was her most 
populous department, after Paris, and her almost 
only source of coal supply. The loss of this prov- 
ince would be a national calamity. Nor was this 
all. The loss of Calais, which had been wrested 
from England in 1558 and held tenaciously until 
now, was a deep blow to her pride. With Dunkirk 
and Calais gone as ports of entry it would neces- 
sitate coming to Dieppe and Havre as next ports 
of importance, further west on the channel coast. 
The misfortune of France was that all her precious 
minerals were on her border. Practically all her 
iron deposits were located in Meurthe et Moselle, 
and without iron and coal, even for domestic use, 
without mentioning her commercial industries, 
France's economic condition would be deplorable, if 
not disastrous. 

The German Chancellor appeared inflexible and 
apparently would not recede one iota in his demands. 
All appeals to German mercy were unavailing, and 
France was forced to admit, that in her haste to 
assist her friend and ally, she did not reckon nor 
count the cost. Her position appeared unassailable, 



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and with the assistance of her powerful allies, de- 
feat was not one of those conditions to contend 
with. Her pride was humbled, and France consented 
to all demands, glad that they had not been greater. 

Upon France's willingness to sign away her most 
precious possessions, the German Chancellor turned 
to address the President and the assembly: 

"Your Excellency, and you, most noble France, 
it was with deep concern that we demanded the 
choicest pearls of the French realm, not so much 
for the value of these departments, but principally 
to safeguard our borders in the future. It was only 
with this idea fixed in our minds that we are obliged 
to be so severe, and with no thought of humiliating 
your king and your people. Since the internal af- 
fairs of France are once more to our liking, we are 
prepared to show our love for France, and assure 
her, by deeds, that Germany will not be a stumbling 
block to her rejuvenation. Our desires are that 
France will once more take her proper place among 
the great nations of the earth, and with this end in 
view, our gracious Emperor has charged me to 
remit all our demands, as set forth in the beginning, 
except that small strip of coast land running ten 
miles west and south of Calais, and embracing Dun- 
kirk, adjoining our conquest of Belgium, and that 
to insure peace and harmony on the continent for 
fifty years', that France join with us in an alliance 



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of mutual protection for that period, and give us 
her hand of good fellowship, and live without malice 
in her heart toward us. 

"We feel sure your gracious King will accede to 
this simple request, which will be a lasting guar- 
antee of friendship and good will between your peo- 
ple and ours. This desire for France's good will 
and friendship on our part, is the result of your 
present form of government, which has pleased the 
German people, and as your monarch is young, will, 
with the aid of his councillors, evade the pitfalls 
of recklessness and extravagance, the cause of his 
ancestors' downfall, and build around him a wall of 
nobles whose only desire will be the welfare of the 
kingdom, and banish all these effeminate parasites, 
who usually infest every court, from his presence. 
By our course in dealing with you, we wish to 
justify our conduct before the world, and remove 
any stain that may remain on our escutcheon, in 
the minds of your people." 

France immediately received the consent of the 
King and Chamber to sign the treaty, and the joy 
of the people knew no bounds. 

While the conference had decided the questions 
between Russia and France satisfactorily to Ger- 
many, the same progress was not taking place with 
the British issues involved, for several reasons. 



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It could be plainly seen that, while Russia ceded 
some territory to Germany and Turkey, and set up 
the Kingdom of Finland; and France ceded a small 
strip of land to Italy, and all her small islands in 
the Western Hemisphere to the United States, or 
adjacent nations, that Germany asked for and re- 
ceived no consequential benefits from France, ex- 
cepting Dunkirk and Calais, for herself. But with 
England it was different. Germany did not want 
any British possessions ceded to her, nor did she 
ask any. England realized this, and much to her 
chagrin, for terms of settlement would then have 
been much easier. 

The hour of British sea supremacy was lost for- 
ever, in the loss of the hundreds of islands en- 
circling the Western Hemisphere. The dominant 
positions commanding the Mediterranean Sea were 
the very essence of her sea strength. Her domi- 
neering disposition to dictate to all nations, in their 
internal affairs, if same ran counter to British in- 
terests, would be a thing of the past. England would 
lose her prestige for power with other nations, and 
veiled threats in the future would avail her noth- 
ing. Never more would other nations beg for an 
alliance with England, on the strength of her 
prowess, and she saw that in the future she would 
be isolated, and must depend upon herself to fight 
her battles. She realized that she must now exert 



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every energy she possessed to retain what colonial 
possessions she had overseas, for with the loss of 
that mighty prestige with which she ruled with an 
iron hand would come discontent in her distant pos- 
sessions, and with discontent comes revolution. This 
late disturbance had plainly shown England that 
her mighty navy would be useless to an invading 
army, in far distant struggles, and that her de- 
pendencies would quickly loosen the shackles of 
misrule and non-representation, which had always 
been denied them. It was not too late for England 
to set about to find means of allaying any discon- 
tent among her colonies, in which, if she failed, 
would soon see the fall of the British Empire. 

Meanwhile the period of truce was fast expiring 
for England. She saw the magnificent manner in 
which Germany had settled with France and Russia, 
and the treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, 
with both these powers, to her exclusion, and rea- 
lized that it was the first time in British history 
that such proceedings had been allowed consumma- 
tion without being challenged, and that she was no 
further ahead in her negotiations toward peace than 
the day the conference opened. England never fully 
realized until now, what an antagonist she had 
raised up against herself. That her first war with 
Germany would spell her downfall was inconceiv- 
able. Why had she fallen away from a friendship 



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that had always been true to her? Why had she 
allowed her jealous passions to rise against her 
strongest neighbor and fatherland? Why, Oh why, 
had not her statesmen realized that every cloud has 
a silver lining, and that the day would surely come 
when she could not always maintain her dominant 
position among the nations of the earth ? Conscience 
answered these questions very quickly: Her in- 
satiable greed for power. Her unwillingness that 
any other nation should share with her that power. 
Her lust for wealth, her weakness for homage from 
all the world, and her overweening vanity. 

Ambitions such as these, caused the downfall of 
Alexander, and the end of Roman power. With our 
enlightened civilization comes education, and with 
education comes strength. Nations tributary to 
great powers, that differ in racial habits and re- 
ligion, as well as geographical positions, will no 
longer submit to be ruled by a race diametrically 
opposed to their own ideals. 

All these things England saw with a conscience, 
that was a terrible accuser, and brought up before 
her eyes the many unmerciful cruelties she had in- 
flicted on weaker struggling communities. Live and 
let live found no tolerance with her policy of ag- 
grandizement, and her superficial social structure of 
pre-eminence and superiority. Everything must be 
dominant to her will, and all that had refused com- 



FORBEARANCE 133 

pliance were crushed or unmercifully blotted out. 
England found out, too late, that her entry into 
this quarrel was really of no material consequence 
to her. If, from her standpoint, other nations were 
wrong, then other nations were equally wrong in 
times past. The very foundation of the glory of 
France and that of British supremacy were laid 
upon the same ideas, theories, and principles that 
had actuated Germany in her desires to perpetuate 
her own empire and destiny. 

There was nothing left for her but to consent to 
Germany's demands, and humiliate herself before 
all the world. She immediately set about to pro- 
tect her largest colonial possessions, for should any 
dissatisfaction arise in India, Australia, Canada or 
Cape Colony, she knew that eventually England 
would be only a name, not to conjure with, but to 
show the coming generation, that even in this late 
day of colossal power, wealth and intellectuality, 
that such things as uncontrolled power may be rele- 
gated to the rear, as easily as in times past, when 
might, ignorance and superstition ruled the world. 
She thought of all the inconsistencies of former 
wars, how she had labored with might and main to 
prevent Russia from reaching the Mediterranean, 
and how, from her power as arbiter of European 
peace she had forced many unjust settlements on 
other nations. Her thoughts return to the Crimea, 



134 FORBEARANCE 

when the "noble six hundred" were slaughtered. 
Imagine their consternation if they could look upon 
the spectacle of England assisting Russia to gain 
her desires at this date, when they were snuffed 
out, combating these very desires. Again, at im- 
mortal Waterloo, the British, with the assistance of 
the German army fought nobly to prevent France 
from entering Belgium. This was now reversed. 
She expended every energy she possessed that 
France might enter Belgium to drive back the Ger- 
mans. Wonderful indeed is the elasticity of the 
human mind, in finding a suitable reason to define 
laws, so that they will meet with their own justi- 
fication. 

She made one more attempt to move the German 
Chancellor to mercy, at which the Chancellor arose 
and addressed the President and conference: 

"Your Excellency, and you, my lords of England, 
it has, no doubt, by this time, become apparent to 
you that in the struggle just passed, in which you 
had absolutely no grievance, you have miserably 
lost, and therefore have no one but yourself to 
blame for your present predicament. It can also 
be readily seen that, contrary to general expecta- 
tions, we have done exactly the opposite to that 
which was predicted. While it was conceded we 
had the right to demand vast territorial possessions 
from England, we have refrained from asking the 



FORBEARANCE 135 

annexation of only a small piece of ground, not 
large enough to speak about. I mean the Island 
of Zanzibar, directly off our East African posses- 
sion. Our reason for taking this unprecedented 
course, following our victory, and which is unpa- 
ralleled in history, has only one answer. As long as 
England followed her ambition to conquer any 
struggling nation, without thought that some day 
these tactics would be questioned by disinterested 
powers, and right prevail over might, she should 
now realize that her day of conquest is past and 
that a righteous God would not forever look with 
favor upon this continual mode of aggression and 
cruelty, but would raise up a powerful protector for 
the weak and lowly to champion their cause, with- 
out compensation, as we have this time done. 

"From the very outset of hostilities we knew that 
our bitterest enemy was England. Russia had no 
other desires than to prevent the absorption of Ser- 
via by Austria-Hungary, for the one and only rea- 
son, that if Servia was to lose her nationality it 
should be to Russia instead of any other nation, on 
account of racial and religious equality. Russia 
saw her error too late to save herself and will 
hardly attempt in the future to shoulder another 
quarrel, having so small a reward to tempt her. 
France was a natural foe, for she fought for her- 
self and not for the mere sake of taking up some 



136 FORBEARANCE 

one else's troubles. For this very reason, and the 
fact that she has resumed her ancient form of gov- 
ernment, we have been over-lenient with her, in 
demanding no accession of territory and assuring 
her, as well as ourselves, of lasting peace and 
friendship. But relative to our course with Eng- 
land, we have only one desire, not for ourselves 
alone, but for the benefit of the whole zvorld. We 
may possibly be the losers, from a commercial and 
financial standpoint, but this loss is more than com- 
pensated for, in our estimation, by the freedom 
which all nations will have on the high seas, with- 
out hindrance in the future. 

"Besides we are not a mercenary nation. Gold 
is not our god. That the seas shall be forever free 
and governed only by the laws of humanity, right 
and justice, without contravening existing interna- 
tional laws, for moral conduct, will be our self- 
imposed task. As can be seen by our demands, it 
is our desire that every bit of land, contiguous to 
or adjoining the American continent, except as 
provided by the present Canadian border, now gov- 
erned by European nations, shall be governed by 
American nations, for the one and only reason that 
the Americas are committed to the republican form 
of government, while all the nations of the Eastern 
Hemisphere are diametrically the reverse. 



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"The British government has, through usurpation 
or conquest, taken to herself every important stra- 
tegical position on the high seas, holding the key 
to the Isthmus of Panama and by force, coupled 
with veiled threats, dominating legislation relative 
to traffic through the channel, built by a foreign 
nation, at an enormous outlay of capital, in just 
the same manner as if emanating from her home 
government. 

"In the same way she controls the Suez Canal, 
built by the French, with the consent of Turkey 
and Egypt, to the utter disregard of these or any 
other nations. Bab el Mandeb, at the southern ex- 
tremity of the Red Sea, is also in control of Eng- 
land, shutting off access to the shorter route at 
both ends. A trifle over two hundred years ago 
England treacherously took possession of Gibraltar 
as a crown land, on account of its being the key to 
the Mediterranean. 

"All these extremely valuable strategic points, 
held by one power, are a constant menace to the 
peace of all nations. Outside of our demand to 
dismantle Gibraltar, we see no reason why an equal- 
ization of maritime power and freedom of the seas 
will not now be the right of every nation, large or 
small, powerful or weak. 

"Should there at any time in the future be trouble 
among the nations bordering on the Mediterranean 



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Sea, it will not mean the closing of this highway to 
commerce of the outside or neutral nations, except- 
ing through an effective blockade of the enemy's 
coast. As nearly all of the European nations are 
dependent upon the English Channel, namely, Eng- 
land, France, Germany, Russia, Holland, Denmark, 
Finland, Norway and Sweden, for their maritime 
commerce, it shall never again be possible that one 
nation will be able to put a lock and key on this 
door, and defy the nations on the other side of this 
entrance, with a possible chance of causing untold 
suffering, by denying food to the hundreds of mil- 
lions of people thus practically locked out. 

"This will be our greatest triumph, and a fitting 
recompense to our posterity, as well as a soothing 
balm to all those living who suffered torture to 
accomplish this vast blessing. Every possible ef- 
fort to belittle our nation, every desire to instil 
poison in the minds of neutral nations by false re- 
ports, every passion aroused against us because of 
our constant victories, every cruelty exercised 
against our soldiers and citizens in captivity, shall 
be bitterly atoned for by the British nation. 

"The bringing together of vast numbers of mer- 
cenaries of all nations', savages, Mongols, Ethiopi- 
ans, Indians and South Sea Islanders to fight her 
battles, while she sits supinely by (enjoying yacht- 
ing regattas and polo matches), directing the dis- 



FORBEARANCE 139 

position of these troops along the battle front and 
hurling these misguided people to certain destruc- 
tion, has not endeared her to her subjects, nor 
should it be any reason why we should be lenient, 
seeing that all rules of warfare have been travailed 
by her. 

"Had victory perched on British banners, Ger- 
many would be undone, and unmercifully crushed 
Our maritime commerce would only be by suffer- 
ance of England, for nothing would be allowed us 
in our defeat. 

"We are in a position to demand anything, but 
we respect justice, honor and the right of the mul- 
titude. Our disposition is just contrary to British 
arrogance. There shall never be absolute peace in 
Europe until the chief mischief-maker is completely 
subdued. We want peace and safety for ourselves, 
in order to be able to guarantee it to others. We 
have nothing to apologize for; we threaten no one. 
Overbearing is not our attitude. We know we are 
intellectually and morally superior as a nation, and 
those that cannot, or will not, attain these attri- 
butes are afraid of us, and in that fear, think us 
dangerous. Just because we have dared to grow 
and keep apace with modern conditions, building 
for ourselves a navy to conform with our position 
as a nation, British statesmen soon became very 



140 FORBEARANCE 

suspicious of our efforts, and determined that we 
must be squelched at any cost. 

"All these jealousies are due to overseas posses- 
sions, and I trust your Excellency will not feel 
offended if I state that independent America should 
view with alarm her distant insular possessions. 
Just as we have demanded that British sovereignty 
cease on the American Continent, with the excep- 
tion of Canada, for the present, in view of the 
noble principle involved in your Monroe Doctrine, 
I may say that I feel trouble brewing for your 
honorable government concerning your possessions 
in the Philippine Islands, and elsewhere in the 
Orient. By disposing of these possessions, which 
are of no special benefit to you and a constant 
source of worry and expense, to Japan, who is only 
about five hundred miles distant, while you are over 
ten thousand miles away, you will make a fast and 
lasting friend of her, and prove your superior dip- 
lomacy. The time is not far distant when Japan 
will come into her own and dominate the entire 
Orient, especially all the peoples of her cast. From 
our viewpoint, Japan will become the arbiter of 
peace in Asia, just as we intend to be the peace- 
maker in Europe. 

"America is for the Americans, vast enough and 
rich enough to support thousands of millions of 
people in comfort. Europe and Africa for the white 



FORBEARANCE 141 

race, and Asia for the Orientals. This method will 
insure a world's peace and wars will fade away 
as a useless adjunct. 

"You will not dispute that in this quarrel were 
massed together greater armies than ever before 
recorded, while the slaughter was not one-tenth as 
great as some previous wars, particularly the re- 
ligious wars of the sixteenth century. When Ant- 
werp fell to the Duke of Alva, for Spain, over one 
hundred thousand innocent people were beheaded in 
the Netherlands, of which Belgium was then a part. 
Antwerp suffered the loss of eight to ten thousand 
and Maestricht lost over thirty thousand, for no 
other reason than that they worshipped their God 
in their own tongue, rather than in a tongue un- 
known to them. 

We may indeed be thankful that church found no 
footing in this quarrel with the Christian nations. 
The spectacle of all religious sects, fighting side by 
side, will never again be witnessed. In fact, the 
next great war will be arrayed by the Orient 
against the Occident, brought on by western greed. 
Our sole desires were to defend our firesides, our 
liberties and our right to exist. Every energy we 
possessed was utilized, every resource at our dis- 
posal was developed to the highest point of effi- 
ciency, and every thought given for the welfare of 
the fatherland. We needed no outsiders to fight 



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our battles. Every German was loyal to his Kaiser 
and country. We had practically all of Europe at 
our throat, and not content with that, it behooved 
our enemies to call on the Orient. Battles are not 
won by might of numbers alone. The weak and 
oppressed, if their cause is just, can, with the aid 
of God, achieve a victory, as we have done. 

"England has learned her lesson. When you 
want things well done, do them yourselves. Mer- 
cenaries have no patriotism; they have nothing to 
lose. It was great sport to travel vast areas at 
some one else's expense and take a shot at the 
German. We were not supposed to be human, but 
some wild animals let loose on civilization, and 
their duty or sport was to gather us together for 
slaughter. But the joy of living was equally as 
strong with us. We were not willing to be cor- 
ralled for slaughter. Our enemies soon discovered 
that the advantage was with us. The defender is 
always more desperate than the oppressor. They 
were compelled to gradually retreat, until there was 
nothing left but surrender. 

"Had Russia been an enlightened country our 
task would not be completed. As' it is, we have 
insisted on our rights without antagonizing our 
late enemies by exorbitant demands, but have, on 
the contrary, by our leniency, honesty and integrity 



FORBEARANCE 143 

of purpose gained their eternal friendship and co- 
operation. 

"Your Excellency, it was not my intention to 
consume so much time in a resume already gone 
over. The truce was for thirty days. Three-quar- 
ters of this time has already been spent, without a 
single concession from our arch-enemy. Our troops 
are, no doubt, leaving Russian and French soil, in 
perfect accord with our terms of peace. We are 
honest enough to believe that they will be as honest 
with us. We are anxious to take up our domestic 
duties where we left off, when called upon to de- 
fend our homes'. 

"We are asking for nothing from England for 
ourselves, and as our demands concern the world 
at large, I can see no reason for prolonging the 
inevitable. In all earnestness will say, that if no 
conclusion is reached at the expiration of this truce, 
we will have no other recourse but to resume hos- 
tilities. I fear very much that the demands later 
on will not be so gentle, therefore let prudence 
dominate your deliberations and decision. 

"I respect you, my lords of England, for the stand 
you have taken, but England today is not the Eng- 
land of former days. If it will be soothing to you, 
I will say that it is not our intention to overwhelm 
Europe, as has been generally predicted. We are a 
growing nation. Our thrift and intellect go hand 



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in hand together. The United Empire of Germany 
will confine her main attempts at rejuvenation with- 
in her borders and our overflow will be used to 
build upon our original African colonies. We are 
not looking for conquest. We want nothing in 
Asia, nor do we want any colonies in the Americas. 
But we do want, and insist on having, freedom of 
the seas, to carry on our commerce with all na- 
tions desirous of having the fruits of our labor and 
industry. We shall stop building a navy and in- 
sist that all other nations in the Eastern Hemis- 
phere do the same. We will not defeat honest 
competition, but welcome it, and I hope to see the 
day in the future that battleships will be a novelty. 
We are in earnest in our efforts to secure the peace 
of Europe, and that your nation shall prove a 
stumbling block would be deplorable. Accept with 
good grace the inevitable. Be thankful we did not 
demand your heart, lungs and stomach. By this 
metaphor, I mean, India, Australia and Canada. 
The time will come when you will realize that we 
are not an enemy, but a friend. You will now know 
how far you may go, and by this knowledge con- 
serve the vast interests you possess. 

"We have taken nothing from you but a few 
islands, scattered too far from your door, and given 
them to our mutual best friend, to whom they be- 
long by right of geographical location. With these 



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infinite possessions disposed of, you will be better 
able to devote your full energy to your important 
colonies. We have no desire to meddle in your in- 
ternal affairs. We realize, if you do not, that your 
colonial policy will have to be altered if you expect 
to retain the love and confidence of your subjects. 
Representation to India and less arrogance with her 
people. They constitute your greatest financial 
strength. They are human, have ambitions and de- 
sires, intelligence and wealth, and no voice in the 
affairs of their own country. How long do you 
think a nation, with five times your population, 
will endure this treatment without being heard? 

"It were far better for England, if she expected 
to remain a world power, to abandon her present 
home and move, bag and baggage, to Australia. 
Your present values of estates in cities and coun- 
try are fictitious, caused by the density of your pop- 
ulation. These same fictitious values could be cre- 
ated anywhere you took your interests and people. 
Australia is a continent, fertile enough to support 
hundreds of millions, and vast enough to satisfy her 
greatest ambitions, and colossal enough to become 
a mighty empire. Every natural resource needed in 
present day arts, manufacture and commerce, are 
known to exist there, which preclude the necessity, 
as now, of depending on the outside markets of 
the world. It is also, and by far the most impor- 



146 FORBEARANCE 

tant, vastly nearer your Empire of India and other 
large island possessions, north and south. 

"Your great colony of Canada will be lost to you 
before the century is half passed. In comparison, 
your present crowded quarters are not to be con- 
sidered, as compared with Australia, India, Cape 
Colony and your large islands, adjacent, all around. 
Such a move would bring all your possessions in 
the Eastern Hemisphere into a group and centralize 
your government. By laying aside your national 
vanity and building for the future, your greatest 
ambitions will be realized. 

"On the other hand, by remaining in England, 
your first loss will be Ireland, down-trodden, op- 
pressed and always in revolt. Then Canada, three 
to six thousand miles away, and revolt in India, 
and finally your South African possessions. For 
the loss of one colony is only an incentive to others 
to seek the same freedom. Your ambition to retain 
world power will have dwindled to England and 
Australia. 

"Be wise, think it over. A vast navy, with an 
enormous outlay, would be a thing of the past. Do- 
mestic contentment would reign. The public bur- 
dens of the people would be lightened. There would 
be plenty of land for every one of your subjects, 
and your nobles could retain vast estates without 



FORBEARANCE 147 

encroaching on the rights of the people. Is your 
national vanity worth the sacrifice? 

"You can then readily see that Germany is not 
an enemy, and has done you a vast amount of good, 
returning good for evil, and you are forever rid of 
those numerous petty quarrels that arise among the 
nations of Europe, clashing with your interests." 

Before the period of truce had expired, England 
signed the treaty of peace that would always re- 
main a monument to Germany's effort to produce 
a lasting peace, and the abolishing of armed con- 
flicts in the future. 



PART EIGHT 



VIII 




HILE peace was being signed in 
Washington, even more momentous 
events were transpiring in Europe, 
particularly in Berlin, the beautiful. 
The previous fall of Paris forty-four 
years ago, culminating in the forma- 
tion of the German Federation, and the acceptance 
of the Imperial Crown at Versailles by the first 
Wilhelm, were events that pale into insignificance, 
compared with the inspiring reception tendered to 
"Wilhelm the Conqueror" at the Royal Palace on 
the Spree, the city home of the Imperial family, 
as he was about to be crowned "Emperor of the 
United Kingdom of Germany, and defender of the 
rights of mankind." 

The Imperial Palace was ablaze with magnifi- 
cence. Enthusiasm, such as was only witnessed at 
the beginning of hostilities, prevailed. Everyone 
was in a delirium of excitement, which was a 



150 UNITED EMPIRE OF GERMANY 

healthy sign of contentment and pleasure. The 
throne room was gala with all the nobles, princes 
and kings of the empire, each dressed according to 
his rank, wearing all their orders. All were accom- 
panied by their ladies, the magnificence of whose 
gowns vied in splendor with their lords. Every- 
thing was in harmony with the greatness of the 
event about to take place, which was to honor him, 
whose sacrifices and devotion, ambition and ability, 
had made possible the successful termination of a 
mighty conflict, and brought together the unity of 
all German nations in Europe. 

The Imperial throne was located in the center 
of six other thrones, upon a slightly raised dias, 
and was the only one unoccupied. Their Majesties 
of Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemburg, on one side, 
and Austria, Poland and Hungary on the other. 
The venerable Emperor of Austria was late in ar- 
riving, and all awaited his coming before the Kaiser 
was to be announced. After a slight delay his Ma- 
jesty of Austria appeared, feeble with age, but un- 
supported. All his brother kings advanced to greet 
their late ally, Francis Joseph, who showed remark- 
able activity in mounting the throne assigned to him, 
on the left of the Kaiser. His face was aglow with 
pleasure, the first time in many years, and his keen 
blue eyes alert to see all that transpired. All this 
noble assembly of royal heads, with their followers, 



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had gathered for the express purpose of renewing 
their allegiance and fealty to the Kaiser in his newly 
exalted position, and now anxiously awaited his 
presence. 

The massive doors leading to the throne room 
were soon opened, and His Imperial Majesty ap- 
peared, accompanied by his entire family, who were 
all arranged at the foot of the dias. But amaze- 
ment was depicted on all countenances. His Im- 
perial Majesty, who, for the past thirty years, had 
always worn the garb of the military, was now for 
the first time clothed in the sable garb of polite 
society, with only the Black Eagle and collar sus- 
pended from his neck. This act, more than any 
other, impressed his audience with the fact that 
peace was now assured in Europe for fifty years, 
and that it was not his intention to don a war-like 
garb under any circumstances for the rest of his 
natural life. To a nature like his Majesty's, the 
military was the very life of his nostrils, and the 
discard of the garb he loved so well was a positive 
indication that militarism in Germany had seen its 
day. 

As the Kaiser ascended the dias leading to his 
throne, the joy of the audience knew no bounds, 
and dignity was for the time forgotten. The mem- 
ory of the greeting he received that evening would 
be forever one of his cherished treasures. After 



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the wildness of this enthusiasm had subsided, the 
King of Bavaria arose and, facing the Kaiser, ad- 
dressed him thusly: 

"Our beloved sovereign, the Reichstag, represent- 
ing the people, in unison with all the princes of 
Germany and Austria-Hungary, as well as our re- 
established brother of Poland, humbly solicit your 
majesty's acceptance of the Imperial Crown of the 
United Empire of Germany, at our hands, for we 
feel the confidence which your leadership has brought 
us, to our present greatness, and in our unity, can 
find no one so competent and deserving of the 
greatest honor and mark of respect which we, your 
peers, have at our disposal, as yourself, knowing 
that under your guidance the German nation will 
enjoy an era of power, peace, well-being and lib- 
erty for all, under the protection of our wise and 
just laws." 

With this remark, all the six kings arose and 
advanced on all sides of the Kaiser, holding aloft 
the Crown, which they placed collectively on the 
head of Wilhelm II with these words: "The em- 
blem, represented by this crown, is the mark of 
reverence and respect, with which your majesty is 
held by all your nobles, peers and peoples, and 
voices our confidence in you, to administer wisely 
the will of the nation for the general good. Ac- 
cept, therefore, this token of our allegiance and 



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fealty to you, as representing the highest form of 
honor we can bestow." Then all returned to their 
thrones. 

His majesty's eyes were dim, overcome by this 
mark of love and affection, by which he was held 
by all his people, and with deep emotion arose to 
address the assembly: 

"My beloved, the great pleasure I feel in ad- 
dressing this noble congregation, the first of its 
kind in the history of nations, and the joy that is 
in my heart with the love of my people, is second 
only to our successful termination of hostilities, and 
the securing of a peace that will last through the 
third generation. I want to take this opportunity 
of publicly acknowledging my profound thanks for 
the unselfish support you and your gallant troops 
rendered the Fatherland in her greatest hour of 
peril. I still shudder at the thought of what we 
have undergone, for the defense of our homes, and 
of the untold suffering of my beloved people, who 
responded so nobly, and accomplished such wonder- 
ful results, under adverse conditions, with all of 
Europe against us. 

"Our brother of Austria may now rest his mind 
in peace, for from now on Europe will settle down 
to the humdrum of quiet and contentment, absorbed 
only in the peaceful arts of husbandry and com- 
merce. The great dream of my life is now at 



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hand in the fulfillment thereof. The unification of 
the Teutonic races will insure to us a lasting peace, 
and the rejuvenation of Europe. We are all of 
one race, one tongue and one desire. There will 
never be civil discord among us. The words of 
that immortal American who stated, "United we 
stand, divided we fall," now applies to us in all 
its' vigor, for in our harmonious unity we are in- 
vincible. 

"The empire created by Bismark, Germany's 
greatest benefactor, for our beloved grandsire, is 
for a second time augmented. Most wonderful of 
all is the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Po- 
land, with a ruler of their own selection, after a 
dismemberment of one hundred and twenty years. 
Wonderful, indeed, are the works of God. This 
miracle has been brought about by our conquest 
from Russia and the restoration of German and 
Austrian provinces, received at the time of dis- 
memberment. His Majesty of Poland will assist 
the Empire in restoring his kingdom to its ancient 
glory and prosperity. 

"Our ally in the late war, has given his consent, 
that while he holds the power over his dual king- 
dom, he will abdicate his sovereignty in Hungary, 
and allow the Hungarian Diet to select a king 
of their choice, which he has religiously done, and 
that Austria, with her conquest of Roumania, and 



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Hungary, with her conquests of Bulgaria, Servia 
and Montenegro, will join the federation of the 
United Empire of Germany, which has also been 
done. Our remaining Russian conquest of Cour- 
land and Kovno will be administered as a crown 
land of Prussia. Our conquest of Belgium, which 
cost us the flower of our brave troops, shall be 
governed as a kingdom in the United Empire of 
Germany, but governed in such a manner that will 
not be displeasing to our people, with a Governor- 
General, and a Governor for each of the nine states 
comprising the conquest, these ten governors to be 
selected, one from each of our independent king- 
doms and grand duchies. 

"But I have another plan in view concerning 
Belgium and her colonies which I desire to submit 
first to you for your consideration. The royal fam- 
ily of Belgium, through their resistance, were 
obliged to seek refuge in England, which country 
now refuses to aid them in such a manner as their 
birth and sacrifice entitles them. Had they not been 
influenced by our enemies to pursue the course 
which ultimately led to their downfall, it is my 
honest belief that they would have acceded to our 
request in the beginning, had they not stood in awe 
of the reputed prowess of England, which they, as 
everyone else, thought invulnerable, and that our 
chances for victory were not even a hazy possi- 



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bility, pitted as we were against all the great mili- 
tary nations of Europe. 

"By our policy, as shown in our attitude at the 
peace conference, which is not one of subjugation 
nor extermination, but has been tempered with 
mercy and justice, it is my desire that all of you, 
my beloved, lay aside all rancor from your hearts 
and let us heap coals of fire upon the heads of this 
royal family, and restore them to their people, and 
former station in life, by recalling them from their 
exile, to assume the duties of assisting their people 
and the appointed governors, in the rehabilitation 
of their country. By their presence and co-opera- 
tion, the fact that Belgium is a kingdom of the 
United Empire of Germany will do much to allay 
their fears, and to reassure the people of our good 
intentions, and that by their representation in the 
Bundesrat, as well as in the Reichstag, they will 
enjoy all the rights and privileges that accrue to 
all our independent states. 

"I cannot forget that their rulers are of our blood, 
a prince of Saxe-Weimar and a princess of Bavaria, 
and for that reason we should show them mercy. 
Let us not begin our reign over a united empire 
with any dissension or discontent among our peo- 
ple, but strive with might and main to keep our 
present harmony and good will toward each other, 
that this same good feeling may always prevail, and 



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show to the world at large that what has been 
possible in free and independent United States, un- 
der their system of Republican government, is just 
as feasible in Europe, with an empire that has been 
brought together by racial and religious similarity. 

"The unification of the Teutonic races, under one 
government, shall always be a mighty monument to 
our intelligence, for by this unification are forever 
removed the petty quarrels and jealousies which in 
times past have led to serious conflicts. We are now 
prepared to face every trial that may confront us, 
collectively, and, in turning to economic affairs are 
assured that, by our wise laws, the people and the 
country will speedily return to its wonted commer- 
cial and financial strength, which was so unjustly 
the cause of the late concerted action against us 
by our cousin of England. 

"The greatest benefit obtained by the peace com- 
mission, far and above all our conquests, which 
concerns the Empire only, is the knowledge that 
for all time, and for all countries, in peace or in 
turmoil, that the high seas, with its numerousi road- 
ways leading to every part of the civilized world, 
are at last absolutely free and unhampered. No 
more shall any one nation dictate the rights, that 
are as free as air, and in our modern civilization, 
as necessary. Before continuing, I ask this asseni- 



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bly of our peers to voice their opinion, on my sug- 
gestion concerning the royal family of Belgium." 

Here the Kaiser sat down and the Austrian Em- 
peror arose to address the audience. 

"Your gracious Majesty, and you, my brothers 
and friends, that I have lived almost four score 
years and ten to witness the consummation of Ger- 
manic destiny and the unification of our tongue 
throughout Europe, is the crowning glory of my 
sorrowful life. I can now peacefully lay down the 
burden which I have carried nearly a half century, 
and die in contentment, knowing that the welfare 
of the Austrian kingdom and the Hungarian king- 
dom will, in its singleness, become more prosperous 
and contented under 'the masterful leadership of 
him, around whom our future destiny is now en- 
twined. 

"When our brother rushed to our defense, and 
often saved the day for us, through his superior 
judgment, my prayer rose to heaven that if we 
emerged from this conflict with success, my first 
act should be the tender of my allegiance to the 
Kaiser, for Austria and for Hungary, that those 
that helped us fight our battles might benefit in the 
future by our becoming part and parcel of the Ger- 
man federation. This now being accomplished, and 
seeing the further restoration of Poland as a na- 
tion, and the Kaiser's desire to keep Belgium as a 



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kingdom, entirely meets with my approval. The 
misguided king of Belgium should not be blamed 
for the faults' of others, nor in my estimation, suf- 
fer extinction. His sufferings must have been in- 
tense when he saw that the serpent who beguiled 
him was not able to save him, much less herself, 
and saw with anguish his kingdom swept from be- 
fore his very eyes and his valiant people scattered 
and slaughtered. 

"I suggest that the Kaiser's desire regarding Bel- 
gium be carried out and that we offer him our hand 
in token of forgiveness and of our sincere regard 
for his future, and I, for one, shall praise his valor 
in the heroic stand he was compelled to take to 
safeguard his birthright." 

All the sovereign rulers, being greatly impressed 
with the novelty of the idea and the deep feelings 
of humanity and brotherly love which was due to 
this young misled king, besides the ties of blood 
which existed among nearly all his sponsors, caused 
them to give their consent, and, finding the Kaiser 
in a receptive mood, asked that he dispatch a spe- 
cial embassy to England to acquaint the young king 
and his family that he still lived in the good graces 
of the Fatherland, and was to again resume his sta- 
tion in life, under the protection of the United 
Empire of Germany. 



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This first act of mercy and justice on the part 
of the Kaiser was to act as a good omen for his 
future rule over his united empire and impress upon 
his people the fact that the Fatherland would al- 
ways stretch forth its hand to safeguard and pro- 
tect those belonging to it. Through the selfish van- 
ity of England, he had lost his kingdom, but through 
the magnanimity of Germany, whom he was taught 
to believe his enemy, all his rights were restored to 
him. This deed of love on the part of the Kaiser 
so endeared him to all the people of Belgium, that 
the new laws enacted for the welfare of the state 
were received with acclamation, and paved the way 
to a gradual acceptance of all things Teutonic. 

The Kaiser, much pleased with the success he 
had met, now arose to finish his remarks. 

"When it became apparent throughout Europe 
that the federation was going to be an accomplished 
fact, I was approached by His Majesty of Den- 
mark, as well as Her Majesty of Holland and the 
Grand Duke of Luxemburg, requesting the permis- 
sion of the Bundesrat to participate in the federa- 
tion, under the same rights as are granted the other 
states, and become a part of the United Empire of 
Germany. I have pledged my word to announce 
this information to you this evening, and having 
viewed the matter carefully, am inclined to give 
my consent, if such be your will. As this embraces 



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the remainder of the Teutonic races in Europe, 
their admission to participate in our unity, by your 
acceptance, will then complete our family, bringing 
under one government, one people, one language 
and one ideal, as well as giving us a vast coast 
line on the North Sea and Baltic, Adriatic and 
Black Seas, giving to us easy access to all the 
world, for the product of our industry. 

"Now hear me with attention, for what I now 
have to say to you merits your profound considera- 
tion and approval. Circumstances have recently so 
adjusted themselves as to occasion the revolution 
of Germanic principles, which have up to now served 
its usefulness. I mean nothing more than the grad- 
ual relaxation of militarism throughout the empire, 
until it is reduced to less than half of its regular 
requirements, giving the people every chance to re- 
turn to their several duties, that we may recoup 
our time lost and its consequent financial losses to 
the state, and individual. It is also my wish that 
no more large vessels of war be constructed, and 
that every effort be made by the central govern- 
ment to lighten the tax burdens of our people. 
Should life be granted me for another ten years, 
I trust by that time to see all the Empire returned 
to its normal state, and the people enjoying the 
peace which is now doubly dear to us. 



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"Free schools with compulsory education for all 
children, in such parts of our Empire where they 
have never before existed, abolishment of all child 
labor forever, a minimum wage scale for common 
labor, recognition of skilled labor in the arts, com- 
plete separation of church from state, freedom to 
all religious sects throughout the Empire, liberty of 
the press, and enfranchisement for every land- 
holder, male or female. These are the more im- 
portant reforms I desire to promulgate, with the 
beginning of my reign over our Empire, and thereby 
retain the love and respect of our subjects. Every- 
thing that can possibly be done for the benefit of 
the people shall be my aim through life, and the 
government shall consider all its subjects as be- 
longing to its private family. Germans and all 
things German, shall be respected at home and 
abroad, and the people taught to understand that 
they represent the highest ideals of our modern 
civilization, culture and government. 

"I notice that the younger element are looking 
forward to the relaxation of the ball room, and as 
I have now said all that I had intended, will gladly 
acquiesce to their desires, and forget for the mo- 
ment the cares of state." 

With this the Kaiser descended the dias, accom- 
panied by his confreres, and led the way to the 
grand ballroom. His entrance was accompanied by 



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the familiar, inspiring strains of the national song, 
"Deutschland, Deutschland, uber Alles," in which 
all the assembly joined. 

While the festivities were at their height, the 
Kaiser returned to the throne room, to meditate 
upon the events that had transpired. The war had 
left its traces upon his strong, noble, handsome 
features, and the agony that was in his heart for 
the loss of so many near and dear to him, wrung a 
pang of anguish from his lips. His majesty in his 
youth had formed many lasting friendships, and 
deeply grieved at the loss of the many friends he 
would never more see, on whom to divide his 
affection and love. Never more would Germany 
need to engage in a struggle. Peace must prevail 
at all hazards beyond the fifty years that Russia 
and France had consented to. The unification of 
the Empire precluded any chance for any nation to 
seek a quarrel. Germany certainly would not look 
for one. The Empire was too powerful. The pop- 
ulation now exceeded one hundred and eighty mil- 
lions, but it would take fully the fifty years to for- 
get the horrors of this war. 

Strict attention to economic problems would be 
the only remedy. Every effort and energy must be 
directed to husbandry, commerce, manufactures and 
the arts. The natural resources of the country 
should become more fully developed. Appropria- 



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tions that formerly went to the naval program, could 
now be used for a special pension fund for all 
wounded cripples, caused by the late conflict. A 
pension fund for all widows with families must 
also be provided. Every hardship occasioned by 
cause of the war must be ameliorated. Patriotism, 
without governmental protection and recognition in 
case of disability, would be a very poor recompense. 
The government must do all in its power to retain 
the love and confidence of the people, who fought 
so nobly to protect it. Germany must always re- 
main the most enlightened country on earth. Edu- 
cation means power, contentment, success and hap- 
piness. Sciences should be cultivated freely and 
merit recognized. 

These and many other thoughts surged through 
his brain. Just so ardently as we defended our 
homes from invasion, causing devastation and de- 
struction all around us, just so ardently must we 
now strive to rehabilitate everything all over again. 
Our neglected industries and our almost ruined mer- 
chant marine must receive immediate attention. 
While all other nations were obliged to borrow vast 
amounts of money to defray their expenses, most 
of this money left their hands, while Germany bor- 
rowed vast sums at home, all of which was spent 
at home, and consequently remained in the Father- 
land. Monetary troubles, or panics, would not be 



UNITED EMPIRE OF GERMANY 165 

our portion. All the nation would have to do would 
be to start right ahead. 

His Majesty, weary over the multitudinous com- 
plex questions regarding economic conditions, re- 
traced his steps to the ball room. Here was pleas- 
ure and happiness, contentment and ease. How- 
ever, there was not one in this entire throng that 
had not suffered the loss of some member of their 
family. These sacrifices were given to the Father- 
land for the protection of those remaining at home 
and were so many honors to be proud of. Such 
courage among the weaker sex was surely going to 
have its own reward, and through this devotion to 
the Fatherland, the Kaiser saw the speedy healing 
of wounds occasioned by the loss of their loved 
ones. The far-seeing acuteness of vision with which 
his Majesty was endowed allowed him to see into 
the future, and showed him plainly that the greatest 
problem which the nation had to face, was the re- 
building of cities and villages destroyed in the path 
of the contending armies. Belgium, Poland, and 
Hungary were the cockpits of contention. German 
and Austrian soil had not been violated by the 
enemy, not because they made no attempt, but be- 
cause they found it impossible. Berlin was the 
cynosure for all her enemies, but while German 
troops occupied the capitols of all her enemies, 
Berlin escaped a like fate. 



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Only the larger cities and more important vil- 
lages should be rebuilt. This would necessitate the 
opening of many factories, for the increased pro- 
duction in manufacturing and building trades. Ev- 
ery lumber mill, every brickyard, and all other allied 
lines must unceasingly labor to produce the com- 
ponent parts required in building construction. 
There would be no idleness among the people. 
Everybody would be busy, and in that blessing, 
would find little opportunity to devote to grief. 

Special lines of industry and science, peculiar to 
Germany, and so necessary to neutral countries, 
must be pushed with greater vigor than before. The 
war had shown that many essentials made in Ger- 
many were absolutely necessary to other countries, 
that the shortage of supplies caused by lack of 
exportation well nigh caused the closing of many 
industries abroad. The country was independent 
of all other nations as far as cereals, fruits and 
foodstuffs were concerned, and the few luxuries of 
life, not native to the fatherland, could now at all 
times be brought into the Empire through command 
of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Of nat- 
ural resources the Empire was lavish. Coal, iron, 
copper, oil, salt and other necessities in the eco- 
nomic welfare of the country were abundant. With 
a laxity of militarism would come a decline in emi- 
gration, and in the retaining at home of all those 



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afflicted with the "wanderlust," would redound to 
the benefit of the Empire. Immigration of Poles 
from far-off countries would be fostered, that they 
might return to their country without fear. 

A general amnesty would be the gift of the Kaiser 
to all German citizens who had fled the country to 
avoid military service, for from now on, military 
service would only be from voluntary offerings. 

While his, majesty was alone in the throne room, 
reviewing in his mind all that was essential for the 
welfare of the Empire, and planning the rejuvena- 
tion of his enlarged kingdom, lost in deep thought 
and meditation, he was suddenly confronted by the 
United States Ambassador, who, in the name of his 
government, offered congratulations on the success- 
ful termination of the peace conference, and the 
President's personal felicitations on the happy event, 
which caused United Germany to offer the Imperial 
crown to his Majesty. At the same time he handed 
the Kaiser a sealed letter, in the personal hand of 
the President. 

The entrance of the United States Ambassador 
had caused quite a flurry of excitement, and the 
fact that he had some communication for the Kaiser 
brought all the tributary rulers from the ball room 
to the Kaiser's side. Ascending his throne, with 
Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemburg, Austria, Poland 



168 UNITED EMPIRE OF GERMANY 

and Hungary in their respective places, the Em- 
peror opened the message and read its contents to 
his few auditors: 

"To His Imperial Majesty, Wilhelm Second of 
the United Empire of Germany, Greetings. Where- 
as, it has pleased the Almighty God to shower His 
love upon your head, and place in your hands the 
welfare and destiny of an Empire, whose multitudes 
are as the stars in Heaven, and numbering upward 
of two hundred million souls, and given you the 
undivided love of your subjects, and the respect of 
all other nations, it is my desire to transmit to you 
and yours, the profound admiration in which the 
government of the United States, and its President, 
holds your Imperial Majesty, and to thank you for 
the unselfish nature in which you did this govern- 
ment an initial service, the vast importance of which 
cannot be measured from a monetary standpoint, 
and shows us with greater force than ever, that 
Germany has always been the steadfast friend of 
the United States from its earliest inception. 

"During the period of the Peace Conference, 
while I had the honor, at your suggestion, of acting 
as chairman ex-officio of the most important diplo- 
matic body that ever convened, and which has now 
happily finished its duties, the effect of which is so 
far-reaching in its ramifications, as to virtually put 



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an end to the jealousies of nations, thereby eliminat- 
ing unpleasant misunderstandings, merits the pro- 
found gratitude of our government, and its recogni- 
tion of the vast service rendered. This government 
did not at first grasp the full meaning of your incom- 
parable unselfishness, in relinquishing to our govern- 
ment all the island possessions of England and 
France, adjacent to our government, south of the 
Canadian border, as well as to all other govern- 
ments in the Western Hemisphere, by which act 
you have set the seal of your approval on our 
Monroe Doctrine, and given notice to the world, that 
as far as' the United Empire of Germany is con- 
cerned, you would uphold this government in all 
that the doctrine implies. 

"The wisdom of your suggestion concerning our 
policy in the far east, relating to our possession of 
the Philippine Islands, has been taken seriously by 
our statesmen, and brought before our Congress, 
and I am happy to say that our present negotiations 
with Japan for their transfer are meeting with fa- 
vorable results. 

"Your wisdom in recommending 'America for the 
Americans/ and practicing what you believe, and 
the magnanimous manner in which your Majesty 
has surrendered to America the strategic points 
protecting the coast line, is the greatest deed of 
generosity in the history of nations, and clearly 



170 UNITED EMPIRE OF GERMANY 

shows your desire to avoid all future complications, 
which their possession might entail. It must be ap- 
parent to all nations, that your solicitude for your 
people, and their welfare is the one great virtue that 
gives you their undivided blessing and support. 

"With your avowal of disinterestedness in Amer- 
ican possessions will come a change in our naval 
policy, as our now isolated position, so far from 
the base of the eastern hemisphere, gives us an 
added reason for security. This government fol- 
lowed very closely the naval policies as pursued by 
the warring nations, and saw with consternation that 
modern science had made obsolete the mighty battle- 
ships on which all nations placed the greatest 
amount of reliance, and that their magnitude was 
the chief reason of their falling easier victims to 
the torpedoes, hurled by the tiny submarine. This 
government shall 'follow in your footsteps, tjhe 
gradual decreasing of the navy, as that arm of ser- 
vice offered no defense after foreign troops had 
accomplished a landing, and as it will never be the 
policy of our government to transport troops to the 
eastern hemisphere, we shall witness a rapid relaxa- 
tion in our naval program. 

"May the friendship that has always existed be- 
tween our nations never grow less, but be more 
firmly cemented in our modern growth, by the ex- 



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change of advantageous commercial treaties, that 
will redound to our mutual benefit and welfare. 

"As a slight recompense in recognizing your per- 
sonal friendship, as well as the esteem of your 
people for our country, and to acknowledge the 
important services rendered, our government, 
through our Congress assembled, has voted to you, 
or any member of your imperial family, the lasting 
freedom of the United States, which our Ambas- 
sador is charged to deliver to you in person. 

"May it be our pleasure in the near future to 
render to you or yours in person the hospitality 
which our government will gladly bestow, and thus 
find means of cementing the friendship which shall 
always exist between your people and ours, yourself 
and our country's President." 

Upon the conclusion of this letter the United 
States Ambassador handed to His Majesty a large 
golden casket, handsomely decorated with the Amer- 
ican ensign, and embellished with numerous jewels. 
Upon opening the casket, the Kaiser discovered a 
gold tablet on which was inscribed: "The United 
States of America, to Wilhelm Second, Emperor 
United Empire of Germany. Greetings: The free- 
dom of the United States is hereby extended to 
your Gracious Majesty, and all members of your 
Imperial family at all times, to signify our love 



172 UNITED EMPIRE OF GERMANY 

and respect to the high attributes of your noble 
deeds and generosity." 

After reading the letter and tablet, His Majesty's 
features relaxed into a pleasant smile, and, turning 
to his few auditors, said simply: "It is well. May 
God guide all our future actions, and give us wisdom 
to carry out his desires." 

Then, turning to the Ambassador: "I thank you 
for your sincere expressions concerning our happi- 
ness, and also for the noble manner in which your 
government, through your President, has trans- 
mitted their high mark of pleasure and esteem for 
our future welfare and glory, and shall always 
remember the lasting friendship and brotherly love 
which our nation and people bear toward your peo- 
ple and government. The high respect which your 
government has shown our family will be further 
cemented by our continued regard for all things 
American, for we cannot forget that your nation is 
built up of German descendants, numbering about 
one-quarter of your entire people, which gives us 
a double reason for loving your people. Kindly 
express to your gracious President our deep grati- 
fication at the manner of his thoughtfulness, and 
that I shall take pleasure in acknowledging my 
thanks to his Excellency, and the American nation 
in a personal letter, which I will have ready in a 
few days, for you to transmit to your government. 



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"The evening is before you, and I trust you will 
partake of the pleasures which are open to you. 
Our gracious Empress will be your guide through 
the intricacies of the ball room,, and it will be your 
own fault if you fail to find the pleasure which will 
surround you." 

The Kaiser and his peers then descended the dais 
and all returned to the ball room, mingling with 
the happy multitude. 







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Emperor Francis Joseph, much beloved ruler of Austria-Hungary. 



PART NINE 



IX 




Y friends, I won't keep you much long- 
er. Just a few words concerning the 
net result on the continent. 

The formation of the United Em- 
pire of Germany had brought vast 
changes in Europe and Asia. France 
had again become a Bourbon monarchy, and was 
really happy, the first time since prior to 1870. The 
Gaulic ideal is to have someone on whom to lavish 
their affections. Under the republic, this ideal was 
lacking, but now that another Louis reigned, the 
glory of France was re-established, and in their love 
for their young king, contentment was supreme. 

The Portuguese republic was also quietly over- 
thrown, and the Braganza dynasty restored, Ireland 
was free, with the full consent of England, and had 
chosen one of her native sons for their king. Just 
as emigration had weakened her, so now, under her 
own flag, immigration back to the "auld sod" was 



176 CONCLUSION 

tremendous. Ireland can, and does, thank Germany 
for her freedom. 

Finland is added to the nations of the world. 
Spain, Italy, and Greece were the same as before. 
Russia, now having no pan-Slavic notions to bother 
her, was working wonders for her people. 

A tremendous change had come over Russia. No 
longer did their nobles oppress the people. Com- 
pulsory education was demanded, rights of public 
gathering and freedom of speech were granted. 

The emigration of all Jews was allowed to the 
Kingdom of, Poland, so that in a short time Poland 
will be in an extremely prosperous condition, and 
no doubt, in time, will rival Palestine. Under the 
protection of the German Empire, every freedom 
allowed to the rest of the people will be their por- 
tion. 

Russia has at last thrown off her lethargy, and 
will become a haven of rest and contentment under 
the new condition of affairs. It may take a full 
ten years for all her people to realize the blessings 
under which they now live, and look forward more 
eagerly to the future. The simple lesson taught to 
the Russian Imperial family, while temporarily de- 
tained as the Kaiser's guest, following his humane 
surrender, is the primary cause for all this goodness. 

He saw how freely our beloved Kaiser mingled 
with the people, and of the intense love and affec- 



CONCLUSION IT! 

tion with which he was held by all his subjects. It 
was a pleasure to be a German citizen, for all knew 
that the Kaiser's love for his people was no less 
than their love for him. With envy, the Czar saw 
all this, and vowed that as soon as he returned to 
his people, he would do everything in his power to 
win the confidence of his subjects. He realized the 
mighty obstacle in his way with the bureaucracy, 
but determined he was going to rule, and allow no 
one to block his ambitions for happiness. I sin- 
cerely hope he will succeed. 

The Scandinavian peninsula remained the same. 
But Turkey will prove the wonder of the twentieth 
century. We did not treat her as a football, in the 
manner she had always before been treated by the 
great powers, but restored to her all possessions 
torn from her last year, and established her sway 
more firmly now, under the protection of our 
Kaiser, than ever before in her history. Her Empire 
in Europe, now watered by the Adriatic, Aegean, 
and Black Seas, would never more be threatened 
by the Balkan question. Upon the personal appeal 
of our Kaiser, the Sultan promises to promulgate 
vast reforms throughout his empire concerning the 
personal freedom of his subjects in religious mat- 
ters, and I understand that in recognition of our 
enduring and substantial friendship and recent as- 
sistance, he is going to restore ancient Palestine to 



1T8 CONCLUSION 

all the Jews of the world, under the joint protection 
of Germany and Turkey, with Jerusalem as their 
capital. In fact, the Kingdom of Israel restored 
after a lapse of more than twenty-five hundred 
years. 

I also see vast changes in the oriental idea. Japan 
has been stirred to her very foundations' by the 
encroachment of the Occident into her preserves, 
to her exclusion in western countries. None of the 
white races will allow the yellow races the advan- 
tages enjoyed by the Caucasian people. White men, 
under the alluring term of "opening up the coun- 
try," have received in the past, vast grants to take 
away the natural resources of the country, thus 
incidentally stirring up strife and discontent among 
the people. 

Japan, as arbiter of affairs Asiatic, has determined 
to ward off the white peril of greed, brutality and 
arrogance, and drive all Christian (?) nations from 
Asia. 

Less than seventy-five years ago, Japan was a 
sealed kingdom, allowing no white intruders. In 
the interim just past, Europe and America have 
opened her eyes very wide, indeed. So much so, 
that what takes some nations hundreds of years to 
see, and still don't see, has taken this wise nation 
half a century to read the occidental nature. She 
has reaped the benefit of her wisdom and is now 



CONCLUSION 179 

ready to shake off the shackles of humility, and 
defy the white peril to proceed any further and 
curtail all future rights in their country. This will 
affect all western countries' having possessions on 
continental Asia or contiguous thereto. 

We may possibly become embroiled on our own 
account, for our Kingdom of Holland. Then our 
treaty with Russia may mean our assistance to our 
ally. England, foreseeing her future home in Aus- 
tralia, will enter into an alliance with Japan for 
their mutual protection in the same waters. 

But that is all in the future. The present con- 
cerns us more. Our beloved fatherland will wax 
great in our unity, and all nations will reap the 
vast benefits which accrue from merchandise stamp- 
ed, "Made in Germany." 

But we shall not become arrogant on our prosper- 
ity, but pursue the even tenor of our way. The 
world shall see, that, although we are the greatest 
people on earth, we are also the most democratic. 

"Now, my friends," remarked the captain "let 
us all rise and renew our pledge to our Kaiser, our 
fatherland, and our ultimate success in the struggle 
of which I have just told you. General," turning 
toward the minister of war, "I feel better now since 
I have told you my story, and if you think well of 
it, tell me candidly." 



180 CONCLUSION 

"My dear captain, your story is so true to what 
we have decided upon, that I hesitate to allow it to 
leave the sanctity of the club, and I ask you, as well 
as all our friends here assembled, to remember their 
pledge. I am delighted that you have told this, and 
will say that the pleasure of listening to it is only 
second to my great love for you. My friends," re- 
marked the minister, before leaving, "let us drink 
to the health of our beloved Kaiser and all join in 
with me in singing 'Deutschland, Deutschland, 
iiber alles.' " 

The story started at eight o'clock. When all the 
boys left for their homes it was nearly morning. I 
remained at the club with my friend, who persuaded 
me to commit my story to some tangible form, and 
hold it until he released it. Even if it never sees 
the light of day, the manuscript will be a soothing 
remembrance of the night all my good friends list- 
ened at the club, while I sat dreamily in the big 
leather armchair, and told them just what I thought, 
and in years after, might be able to compare my 
forebodings with the real events, and see how my 
forbearance tallied with my Kaiser's. 

That night I dreamed the bear and the lion had 
come to devour me, but rising in my might, I rose 
up against them and slew them. When I awoke in 
the morning, rather late, I noticed my friend, the 
minister, had gone to his headquarters. Just as I 



CONCLUSION 181 

was going to call him up on the telephone, a page 
brought me a large official document. 

"From whom?" I asked. 

"His Excellency, the Minister," replied the page. 

I eagerly opened the missive and found enclosed 
a furlough to the United States with some slight 
duty attached, as well as a personal letter, which I 
hastily looked over. 

"My dear captain," started the letter, "I enclose 
for you a leave of absence for two years. Go away 
and enjoy yourself. You need a good rest. Your 
story last night has upset me terribly. If, while 
you are away and hostilities occur, think of me. I 
give you leave then to use your story any way you 
see fit. His Majesty will hear of it before noon, so 
be on your way before then, and remember that in 
me you have always a staunch true friend." 

All I ask of my readers, is that they will remem- 
ber, when reading this, that I am a German, and 
can only see things from a German standpoint. My 
intense love for my Kaiser and Fatherland is equally 
shared by the seventy-five millions* at home and the 
thirty millions away from home. 

My proudest distinction is not my ancient and 
honorable name, but my right to being called THE 
GERMAN. 

CONCLUSION 



The United Empire of Germany in continental 
Europe, exclusive of her African colonies, embraces 
the following States, with a list of the more im- 
portant cities of the realm. 

Sq. Miles' Population 

Kingdom of Prussia 135,000 45,000,000 

Courland 26,000 2,500,000 

Kovno 1,000 60,000 

Oesel 

Kingdom of Austria 116,000 32,500,000 

Bosnia-Herzognia . . . . ' 20,000 2,500,000 

Roumania 50,500 7,500,000 

Kingdom of Hungary 125,000 22,000,000 

Bulgaria 37,000 5,500,000 

Servia 18,500 3,500,000 

Montenegro 3,500 250,000 

Kingdom of Poland 49,000 13,500,000 

Grodno 14,500 2,000,000 

Kingdom of Bavaria 30,000 8,500,000 

Kingdom of Wurtemburg 7,500 3,500,000 

Kingdom of Saxony 6,000 6,000,000 

Kingdom of Belgium 11,000 8,650,000 

Calais 500 110,000 

Dunkirk 

Kingdom of Holland 13,000 7,000,000 

Kingdom of Denmark 15,000 3,000,000 

6 Grand Duchies 19,000 7,450,000 

5 Duchies 4,500 2,250,000 

7 Principalities 2,200 1,000,000 

3 Free Towns 375 2,000,000 

Alsace-Loraine 5,600 2,000,000 

Luxemburg 1,000 350,000 

711,675 188,620,000 

Y 5 size of United States — twice population. 
Y 12 size of Russia — same population. 
3 times size of France — four times population. 
5 times size of England — four times' population. 
Density per square mile, 207. 



PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE EMPIRE 



Berlin 2,500,000 

Vienna 2,150,000 

Hamburg 1,150,000 

Warsaw 1,000,000 

Budapest 900,000 

Brussels 675,000 

Munich 650,000 

Leipzig 650,000 

Cologne 600,000 

Breslau 600,000 

Dresden 600,000 

Amsterdam .... 600,000 

Copenhagen . . . 600,000 

Frankfort-Main. 500,000 

Lodz 450,000 

Rotterdam 450,000 

Dusseldorf .... 400,000 

Nuremberg .... 385,000 

Antwerp 350,000 

Charlottenberg. . 350,000 

Hanover 350,000 

Essen 325,000 

Madgeburg 325,000 

Bucharest 325,000 

Stuttgart 325,000 

Chemnitz 325,000 

Hague 300,000 

Konigsburg .... 300,000 

Bremen 300,000 

Trieste 250,000 

Prague 250,000 



Lemberg 250,000 

Stettin 250,000 

Kiel 225,000 

Mannheim .... 200,000 

Strassburg 200,000 

Halle 200,000 

Dortmund 200,000 

Liege 185,000 

Ghent 175,000 

Gratz 175,000 

Cracow 175,000 

Altona 175,000 

Barmen 175,000 

Danzig 175,000 

Elberfeld 175,000 

Cassel 165,000 

Posen 165,000 

Brunn 150,000 

Sofia 150,000 

Lobeck 150,000 

Aachen 150,000 

Brunswick 150,000 

Karlsruhe 150,000 

Krefeld 125,000 

Szegedin 130,000 

Utrecht 130,000 

Belgrade 100,000 

Szabadka 100,000 

Debreczen 100,000 

Mainz 125,000 

Mulhausen 100,000 




JoJiann Wilhelm von Lowenell Brandenburg-Hohenzollern. 



EXPLANATION TO MY MANY 
FRIENDS. 

The sentiments expressed in the follow- 
ing pages were written in 1915 as follows 
and are independent of the foregoing story. 

England's Reveries, 

Written during the month of May. 

The Fatherland, 

Written during the month of October. 

The Prince of Peace, 

Written during the month of October. 

Our Heroes, 

Written during the month of October. 

Germany as Europe's Savior, 
Written in July. 

England's Nightmare, 

Written in August. 



PART TEN 
X 

ENGLAND'S REVERIE 
I 

Farewell, farewell, a fond farewell to all my great- 
ness. 

I had ne'er thought to see the day that England, 

Shorn of prestige, power, and that all absorbing 
vanity, 

Would one day be compelled to sue for mercy from 
her father's hand. 

That I have been a wayward child in all times past, 
I'll not deny, 

But who would not have done the same as I, 

Had opportunity been thrown across their way. 

II 

Bred in the hills of Saxon land, free as the stars 
that shine; 

Uncurbed in passions, uncontrolled in deeds, un- 
bridled mine 

Was every effort. That I should follow destiny, 
was my share 

In the all-absorbing duties laid to me, and now to 
bear 

The pangs of sorrow and defeat, brought on by 
German lure, 

Makes my humiliation more than I can patiently 
endure. 



188 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

III 

For centuries past have I sought to control this 
little earth, 

Taking by force every point that would advantage 
in its girth. 

Great task though it seems, yet small enough for me, 

And when it's done — all through my mastery of the 
sea. 

Great deeds they were, that brought me much re- 
nown, 

And added vastly to my fame in good old London 
town. 



IV 



Gibraltar fell to me by cunning force, for what care 
I what others think; 

Then to prove my mastery, I seized on Suez's con- 
necting link. 

The channel's mine, that, no one would me this deny, 

But I was not content, until I had at Panama a try. 

While really never governed from great London 
town, 

What matters that, as long as my ship s equally go 
down. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 189 

V 

How well do I remember those stirring days at sea, 
When the proud Spanish Armada, at Trafalgar, 

fell to me. 
For this deed, more than all others, showed me 

clear the way, 
How to browbeat nations, and leave me mistress, 

stay. 
While on the sea, I was a phantom victor; I did it 

through sheer nerve, 
As long as others feared me, that answered my all 

to serve. 

VI 

On land, my valiant armies thundered, protected by 

the fleet, 
I always strove to remain near shore, in order to 

keep my feet, 
My Australians valiant, with our true New Zealand 

host, 
Would march to doom and destiny, was always my 

free boast. 
I placed a mighty confidence in our white turbaned 

Indian men, 

But most of all I loved my sons from far off Can- 
ada's glen. 



190 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

VII 

Why do I trust my armies to sons not England's 
own? 

Even though I used them, the officers were all from 
home. 

Why lead to slaughter Englishmen, when Colonials 
will do? 

Let them do the deeds valorous, that's all I ask 
of you. 

When it comes to placing honors' upon the heroes 
bold, 

If you do look but closely, you'll find our native 
British has the gold. 

VIII 

When I look far back at Canada, how I won this 
great domain, 

And through the wiles of savage men, gained access 
to this plain. 

It mattered not, those peaceful French, were there, 
within their rights, 

It must be mine, to feed my purse, that's why Wolfe 
stormed those heights. 

I've used this great Dominion, to bolster up my 
pride, 

And through its vast resources, brought greatness 
to my side. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 191 

IX 

Many times of late I've wondered, at golden India's 
bloom, 

With never a thought of treason, nor my own im- 
pending doom ! 

This empire gave us a Cawnpore, a Delhi, and other 
sleepless nights, 

That's the reason why I wonder, after removing all 
their rights. 

But with my artful mastery, I'll try to keep them 
quiet, 

By limiting their knowledge of the mighty things 
in sight. 



I look with pride and pleasure, at my conquest 
from the Boers, 

With much more satisfaction than Spain had from 
the Moors. 

Not that I cared for this country, half as much as 
I did for its gold, 

Its diamonds, and its location; that's what I want 
to hold. 

If I use these people civilly, perhaps they'll forget 
their woe. 

No matter what I decide to do, my ways and laws 
must go. 



192 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

XI 

With all my pleasures clear, comes one not bring- 
ing cheer, 

When I think of my neighbor, Ireland, the one I 
always fear. 

Down-trodden, abused, and kept in slavish chains, 

For fear she'll dash for freedom, and worry my 
poor brains, 

For Ireland must be an example, just to show the 
world my might, 

And any jump for freedom, from my standpoint, 
isn't right. 

XII 

Thus have I looked at power, and gloried in my 

deeds, 
For I never dreamed of danger; who would dare 

to try my reeds? 
Thus have I slept in security, surrounded by fear 

and might, 
For I never thought to question any nation for my 

right. 
Thus have I drank to fullness, and gorged myself 

at last, 
For I thought I knew my weakness, and debility 

was past. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 193 

XIII 

Long, long will I remember the summer of fourteen, 

When clothed in purple and fine linen, more con- 
quests had I seen. 

More lust for greatness craved I, to feed my vanity 
at home, 

And caused me to ask for a million sons, on other 
shores to roam. 

I could play my old, old tactics, of coaxing colonials 
to fight, 

Without the loss of a single man from the British 
Isles so tight. 

XIV 

But my mighty efforts went to naught, against my 

father's sons, 
For the Teutons were not savages, and fought with 

better guns. 
Man for man we struggled, but without very much 

avail, 

It seemed we could not move them, so fast they 
held the trail. 

I worried some, for fear they'd come, and shatter 

us to bits, 
For the way their guns in thunder rolled, told of 

some smashing hits. 



194 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

XX 

First they took poor Belgium, whom I told I would 
protect, 

But I found I was not able, with the aid of France, 
to check 

Their mighty hosts, from driving us to the very 
edge of land, 

And instead of steel or powder, we had to use our 
hands. 

We burrowed in the ground so deep, they did the 
very same, 

Until at last we had to fly, from the fury of their 
flame. 



XVI 

Now with Russia, things went just as bad, 
For their cohorts fled, in rushes mad, 
And all Poland fell in one wild swoop, 
While fair Warsaw housed the victor troop. 
This loss, to me, caused me much pain, 
For well I knew, this 1 great value gained. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 195 

XVII 

As sure as fate, they all came back, to try once 
more 

Our end to seal, and banish us back to our door. 

We were all in, and lacked the vim, that spurred 
them on, 

Although we knew defeat was ours, we fought to 
save ourselves from ruin. 

I cursed the day that brought me in 

The fury of this needless din. 

XVIII 

Why did I ever consent to go into a field so full of 
woe! 

Why should I care for other's quarrels, and mix 
in so! 

Who would have thought my first quarrel with 
Prussia 

Would bring disaster to England, France, Belgium, 
and Russia. 

How could I dream that my strength at sea 

Was utterly useless in struggles to be? 



196 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

XIX 

The fight on the Marne, when our foes rolled back 

To take up their defense in the soil with a crack. 

Then the fight at La Basse, with our colonials of 
renown, 

I shudder to see it, how those brave lads went down. 

The fight was in earnest, we were tied hand and 
foot, 

While the Germans went eastward, the Russians 
to root. 

XX 

While the Teutons were adding fair Poland to their 
crown, 

Here in France must we sit, to watch Ypres town. 

Lest our cousins from Germany come in the night 

And with their great forces o'erwhelm us, on our 

right. 

Leaving the road open to the coast towns, Dunkirk 
and Calais, 

To our chagrin and destruction, the world's verdict 
will say. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 197 

XXI 

But long ere this, Russia will yield to German valor 

and renown, 
Leaving us helpless, humiliated, shorn of purple and 

crown. 
While poor misguided France sees no chance but 

in flight, 
Germany pushes ever forward, advancing, eager to 

fight. 
The battle is forced, the French, taunted, turn at 

bay, 
While the slaughter of reason, turns this Teuton 

victory to play. 

XXII 

Russia, abandoned, defeated, asks for peace in her 
way, 

Gives all up to Germany, Austria and Hungary, so 
that she may 

Return to her homes and forget how she was led 
to believe 

In the greatness of England, and the help she'd 
receive. 

But, no ! Russia's eyes are now opened ; no more 
will she crave 

Friendship nor alliance with her who once ruled the 
wave. 



198 ENGLAND'S REVERIES 

XXIII 

After disaster to Russia comes chastisement for 
France, 

Not for mere power, but to see her just dance — 

The dance of defeat; close to her only great city. 

With fear on all faces, and from Germany no pity. 

Thus would she reap what she had so carelessly 
sown, 

Revolution against the republic, and the empire 
come home. 

XXIV 

I used my great navy, that cost me much treasure, 
The pride of our people, that filled me with pleasure, 
But when on the sea, they were targets so great 
For the swift submarine — I was unable to state 
How great were my losses, to my people at home, 
For fear of worse danger, unrest, from apex to cone. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 199 

XXV 

We tried all kinds of diversions', our losses to hide 
By sending a squadron, with the French at our side, 
Down to the Hellespont, narrow, to force our way 

through, 
And capture fair Stamboul, which we tried hard 

to do. 
But vain were our efforts, for the Turks had grown 

wise, 

With the teachings from Teutons, so strong was 
their rise. 

XXVI 

After losing vast numbers, both ships and brave men, 
We made one last great effort, to conquer again. 
Our combined onslaught was voided, so fierce was 
their charge, 

That few ships were left floating, our marks were 
so large. 

Our navy is done for, the small sub. is to blame. 

Shall we tell all our people, or hide it in shame? 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 
XXVII 



Thus my greatest reliance has all gone for naught, 
From just what we have seen, a great lesson was 

taught. 
Though your foe may look simple, trust not in his 

looks. 
I learned sadly this) lesson, but not out of books. 
Now back home will I go, and contented shall be 
To play second fiddle to my German cousin, Willie. 



XXVIII 

No more will I threaten, nor make myself bold, 
Nor crave after conquests, so useless to hold. 
Let every nation exist, as is their just right, 
There's enough for us all, without calling in might. 
Contented I'll be with my new lot in life, 
"Stay at home," they'll all call me, which is better 
than strife. 



ENGLAND'S REVERIES 201 

XXIX 

Last, but not least, far down in the scale, 

With my gallant forces retarded, and my navy for 
sale. 

How can I look backward and see myself now, 

A second rate nation, among those whom I bow, 

No pride, no more glory, no bluster, no bluff, 

Taught to mind my own business, and for me that's 
enough. 

XXX 

So, farewell to ambition, which is nothing but pride. 

'Twere better, far better, to have peace by my side. 

Away from all turmoil, with sweet joy in my heart, 

This path will I follow, from which I'll never depart. 

Let bygones be bygones, when all has been said, 

And the Union Jack is protected by the Black, 
White and Red. 



PART ELEVEN 
XI 

THE FATHERLAND. 



What land is that so bright and clear, 
That looks so good and has no fear, 
A land not new; grown old in cheer, 
The home of homes, the home so dear? 
Germany the Fatherland. 

II 

Where does our Kultur reign supreme, 
Where is our Science always seen, 
Our love for mankind always green, 
Our faith in God steadfastly clean? 
Germany the Fatherland. 

Ill 

Where grows the harvest best of all, 
The fruit so sweet at nature's call, 
With nuts so rich on trees so tall, 
God's best thanksgiving every fall? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



204 THE FATHERLAND 

IV 

Where are the children taught to write, 
To grow up strong in all their might, 
To play by day and rest at night, 
So kind and true, a pleasing sight? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



V 



Where's the beauty with grace so fine, 
Features handsome and form divine, 
Best of sweethearts we'll all opine, 
Truest wives from earliest time? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



VI 



Where live the men with hearts so bold, 
Whose love of country ne'er grows cold, 
With patriotism richer than gold, 
Alters not, but will always hold? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



THE FATHERLAND 

VII 

Which of all nations heeds its needs, 
Where, oh where, does liberty lead, 
Where does labor find its full meed, 
Where the people most free from greed? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



VIII 

What nation's king is loved by all, 
Whose every wish answers the call, 
Whose only thought from fall to fall, 
Is for the people, large or small? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



IX 

Where do you find armies so grand, 
Steadfast and true, able to stand 
'Gainst all our foes, clearing the land. 
Led to vict'ry by steady hands? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



206 THE FATHERLAND 

X 

Where grow flowers fairest to see, 
Where are birds found mostly to be 
Where rivers are bright, pure and free, 
The land we love, for you and me? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



XI 



Whose navy shows such latent power, 
Guards its own coast through every long hour, 
Repels all foes with cruiser towers 
While sub. boats watch, and all foes cower? 
Germany the Fatherland. 



XII 



Then to the Fatherland be given all praise, 
That God in his mercy continues to raise 
Our country from danger, through intricate maze. 
The land of the true, and the home of the brave, 



PART TWELVE 

XII 

THE PRINCE OF PEACE. 



In Potsdam, on the Havel, on a blustery winter's 

day, 
'Mid shouts of great rejoicing, an announcement 

went its way. 
It carried the glad tidings of a prince born to our 

realm, 
Third in line to Wilhelm First, whose strong hands 

then steered the helm. 
The month was January; the date was twenty seven, 
When to the world was given this prodigy from 

heaven. 

II 

Then, the year was 'fifty nine; but Time rests not 

in its flight; 
This Prince had grown to manhood, when God 

called him in his might. 
In 'eighty eight, his grandsire answered the call 

from on high, 
And three short months thereafter, Unser Fritz 

must also die. 
This Prince was now the Kaiser, and ruled a 

mighty nation; 
His thoughts were for his people, regardless of his 

station. 



208 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

III 

'Twas not so very simple to wisely rule so many 
states, 

While many elder statesmen tried vainly his 
thoughts to abate. 

Great Bismarck was the first one to feel the weight 
of his ire, 

And this warrior stepped from sight with sad mis- 
givings dire. 

The world looked on in wonder, to see this young 
Kaiser fight, 

They thought it utter madness, for so rare was such 
a sight. 



IV 



He carried out his plans so well, that? all his people 
said, 

"We'll trust to him to lead us right, God's blessing 
on his head." 

The love of all went out to him throughout his land 
so great, 

That all his people bless him still, in large or small- 
er states. 

His every care was for their rights, his' fight was 
not in vain, 

His ideal was a lofty one ; his wishes caused no pain. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 209 

V 

Full fifteen years had sped away when he came to 
the throne, 

And war had left its imprint still in many, many 
homes. 

"While I reign, strife shall never be, if I can ward 
it off, 

The only way to guard us right, is not for us to doff 

Our vigilance one little day, but hold this thought 
in sight, 

And be prepared against the time, when we might 
have to fight." 



VI 



He looked with foresight to the sea, a great marine 
to build. 

He saw his mighty ships so large with German 
products filled. 

They brought his country riches vast; they sailed 
the wide world over, 

He little thought such tactics then would cause bad 
blood in Dover. 

To guard this commerce well, thought he, we'll 
need a mighty navy, 

For, should there be a fight at all, they would pro- 
tect us, surely. 



210 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

VII 

While building all these ships so grand, so strong 
with might and main, 

He knew quite well the British mind would not en- 
dure this strain: 

"For well," said he, "I know for truth they look 
not on with pride 

To see how great these Teutons were, so near them, 
side by side." 

But this was as it had to be, to guard his interests 
great, 

For commerce now must rule the world, and share 
its needs with state. 

VIII 

These tactics brought the Kaiser young, before the 
world at large. 

They saw him doing mighty things, with all those 
in his charge. 

They could not understand his ways, nor see that 
he was bent 

Upon protecting Germany, no matter where he went. 

It was not long before they called their ministers 
to see 

Just what was meant by all this force, and what it 
led to be. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 211 

IX 

All Europe asked this Kaiser bold just what was on 

his mind; 
He answered very readily: "A sure way for to find 

Surcease from sorrow, pain, on woe, in all the time 
to come, 

I look for freedom for our State, for every one at 
home. 

I'll build up such a bulwark strong, that none will 
dare assail; 

I'll guard my rights with ships and men, I know 
that I'll prevail." 



"I'm land locked in, with nations great, with foes 
on every side, 

I must look forward to the time when these same 
foes' will hide 

Their thoughts behind their wishes strong, and 
plunge us into war, 

For I must be prepared to fight, and hear our can- 
nons roar 

Defiance to the world at large, to those who seek 
our hurt, 

That's why I do what I have done ; our homes with 
steel are girt." 



212 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

XI 

"Our happiness is just as dear to us as all your 
kind; 

We have no evil in our hearts, and only wish to find 

A lasting peace upon this earth, free from all out- 
ward strife, 

Our wishes are for everyone, God's blessing and 
long life. 

Thus you may know how far we'll go; think well 
before you leap, 

For God will watch us here below ; our safety never 
sleeps." 



XII 



Thus warned the Kaiser, all those kings, with peace 
within his heart. 

They did not take so very well the words he did 
impart ; 

They hurried home to build with haste vast ram- 
parts on their shore. 

They could not read the peace within, they trusted 
not such lore. 

They called him "War Lord," knowing not he was 
the Prince of Peace, 

They could not understand his mind, nor read his 
heart at ease. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 213 

XIII 

Thus time went onward in its flight, each year in 
feverish haste; 

The Kaiser still prepared his men, and did let noth- 
ing waste. 

While all the nations near at hand, had wars with- 
out an end, 

The fatherland did show the world, that war could 
not unbend 

Him, from his ways of peace so good, nor move 
him to take part 

In conquests cruel as they did fight, nor mercy in 
their heart. 

XIV 

Their wars and quarrels had interest none. The 
Kaiser could not see 

Why avarice should rule their hearts, where only 
peace should be. 

He knew that greed with longing eyes would look 
upon his land, 

And he was pleased to see how strong his foes he 
could withstand. 

He worried not, but went his way, rest and ease to 
enjoy, 

The nation all this rest did praise, for all it did 
employ. 



214 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

XV 

The greatest quarrels I now relate, since Teutons 
went to war, 

All England jumped with savage tread upon the 
little Boer, 

The mighty Russ. did long to try to gobble up the 
East, 

The doughty Japs were wide awake, and fought the 
bearish beast. 

The British won in all their strength, against their 
little foe, 

While Russia vast, fell to the blast, of Japan's little 
toe. 

XVI 

Spain seemed to think she was as great as in those 
days of yore, 

And practiced ways so crude and cruel, that "Uncle 
Sam" got sore. 

This war was through ere it began, and Samuel won 
the fight; 

The Cubans free, the Maine avenged; these people 
fought for right. 

The Balkan states quarreled many times, they knew 
not why they fought, 

Their sole desire was to rend each other, and all 
for naught. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 215 

XVII 

The Kaiser saw with anguish deep how all did lust 
for gore, 

He blessed his God that he was free from avarice 
so sore; 

He wanted peace at any price, for well he knew 
the cost, 

How terrible it all would be for those poor souls 
who lost. 

He had no fear, for safety first was always his sure 
plan, 

For Teuton science would save all, it must, it surely 
can. 

XVIII 

The Algeciras conference most surely went to show 

To all the world the Kaiser's will, and how far he 
would go 

To keep his pledge, and not inflict disaster on his 
land ; 

What meant a little conquest there, against blood 
on his hand; 

But all his people said 'twas wrong, to give in to 
France's state, 

The Kaiser's will prevailed once more; he wiped 
this off his slate. 



216 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

XIX 

As time went on, the Germans waxed greatest of 
all nations; 

In wealth and strength her fame went out; from 
her they got their rations. 

She took instead, cotton and bread, and stored them 
for the future, 

Iron and coal, copper and lead, were housed without 
much scruple. 

All things were bought she did not have, to prepare 
for evil days; 

The Kaiser saw as sure as fate, the sad trend of 
modern ways. 

XX 

The Kaiser was Victoria's pride, he loved her as 
he should, 

For she was German through and through, though 
on England's throne she stood. 

The Kaiser loved the old Czar great, for each 
would shield the other; 

The Princess Sophie found a place, the Greek king 
is her lover; 

But Francis Joseph was a friend, more close than 
all relations', 

For Germany and Austria must guard the Teuton 
nations. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 217 

XXI 

The Kaiser stood in all his might to guard the 
peace he loved so well. 

Lest countries rise, as avarice thrives, to plunge 
the people all to hell. 

The task was great, the tension strong, foul murder 
stalked right near the throne, 

The Austrian heir was called on high, before his 
time, and left to groan. 

Thus Servia brought on quarrels so thick, that 
human nature could not stand, 

And Austria was compelled to strike, with utmost 
force, and armies grand. 

XXII 

The Kaiser did all he could do, to stop all others 
joining in; 

The task was useless, for all thought the time had 
come that they could win. 

They little knew how sad their fate would be in 
time, 'gainst Teuton arms, 

The Kaiser knew the game too well, and soon was 
on the Frenchman's farms. 

The slaughter was great, the crime so bold, the 
blood cries out from hearts so cold, 

The Allies lost; they fought to fight. The Germans 
fought, their homes to hold. 



218 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

XXIII 

The blood guilt of this war shall be upon the British 
statesmen, 

Who fought for fame and glory bright, in their 
accursed nation. 

Ten hundred thousand British lives cry out to Grey 
and Kitchener, 

With Asquith close, and Churchill next, as very 
able teachers. 

The world now knows how sadness goes in every 
home so humble, 

The Kaiser prays by night and day, these four mon- 
sters to crumble. 

XXIV 

What good, you ask, was all this work in trying the 
peace to hold, 

With navies great and armies strong 'gainst these 
four pirates bold! 

The Kaiser weeps for Teuton sons, snuffed out in 
this senseless fray, 

And bides his time when victory's won, these rob- 
bers of lives must pay. 

For had the Kaiser been amiss, the day would 
barren be of bliss; 

While now, the Allies have to bow, and follow sec- 
ond after this. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 919 

XXV 

The Kaiser holds the greatest prize that ever swung 
before men's eyes, 

With greatest exultation he will ask the price that 
ought to be. 

All Europe fell before his lance, the sun is dimmed 
beside his glance, 

For he thought well before he spoke, and took the 
world by storm chance. 

The greatest living man on earth, the king so bold 
from very birth, 

The symbol of the Prince of Peace, all through this 
land from girth to girth. 

XXVI 

He asked the simplest thing that was, something to 
brighten every cause, 

The golden rule from men on earth, that happiness 
might make us pause 

And bless the Kaiser young, but grey, whose great- 
est jewel by night or day 

Was) the prize he sought so patiently, and ardently, 
to find the way 

For the kingdom of God on earth, and on earth, 
peace, good will toward all, 

That men may reflect for once, and heed the wishes 
of his call. 



220 THE PRINCE OF PEACE 

XXVII 

The joy that in his heart there was, was joy so 
sweet, so pure, so true, 

For France was now a friend so good the German 
black entwined their blue. 

The Russian bear came from afar, his truce to lay 
down at his feet, 

And thank the Kaiser for the bar that crossed out 
wrath, in mercy's street. 

The Latin skunk no place could find to hide his 
perfidy so blind, 

For all men shunned his hand so red, to leave him 
in his silence grind. 

XXVIII 

The Englishmen were filled with fear, they knew 
this effort cost them dear, 

And guilt was theirs, the whole world knows, these 
thoughts therefore gave them no cheer, 

They thought they must give up much land, not 
knowing Wilhelm's winning hand, 

They thought this king would do as they, and make 
the looser pay the band, 

The speech he made some years before, came back 
with force before their mind, 

They saw what fools they all had been, too late they 
tried escape to find. 



THE PRINCE OF PEACE 291 

XXIX 

Now when the Kaiser told them straight, just what 
their price of peace would be, 

They listened like a child at prayer, and heard his 
terms in wonder free. 

No land he asked, he craved it not; he sought for 
freedom of the seas, 

Not for himself, but for the world, a peace so strong 
not broke with ease. 

He proved to them that right was might, that greed 
found lodgement not with him; 

That God would fight his battles just; strong hands 
without, pure hearts within. 

XXX 

Thus has the Kaiser earned a rest, as well as fame 
throughout the earth, 

This wondrous man of fifty-five has shown them 
all, that from his birth 

God sent him forth with mission large, all speaking 
tongues to heed his prayer, 

And start forthwith to walk with God, in humble 
ways now everywhere, 

A Prince of Peace, that fought for peace; a kindly 
man, with thoughts so pure, 

His reward is great down here below, for the good 
he did will long endure. 



PART THIRTEEN 
XIII 

OUR HEROES 



When jealous passions ruled the day, with dogs of 

war let loose to bay, 
The nation turned with eager eyes, to look for 

leaders young or gray. 
Men who could lead an army strong, and bring 

home vict'ry with a song, — 
A song so sweet to men in arms, that would teach 

foes the right from wrong, 
And drive home truths with might and main, that 

all may know we're not to blame. 
Such men as these the Kaiser sought, who would 

shield home from shot and flame. 

II 

Such men are found in times of stress, and with 

great vigor lead the press, 
With one thought foremost all the time, planned out 

before, — not left to guess. 
In times of peace all men are bold, when evil 

thoughts sway not the mind, 
But when this peace takes wings and flies; most all 

this boldness turns out blind. 
But even thus, men are still men, and worth comes 

out when called to lead, 
And many times strong minds are born in those 

true men in times of need. 



224 OUR HEROES 

III 

When come those cries for heroes bold, to stop the 
onslaught of the Russ, 

Someone with nerve to still the fears of children 
young and women folks, 

Someone in whom all these may trust, to guard 
their honor from the bear, 

That they may sit in peace secure, and show their 
foes, they may not dare 

To cross our lines, while German hosts guard well 
the borders of our land, 

And know that heroes bold do stand, a bulwark 
strong at every hand. 

IV 

The Fatherland had one such son, grown old in 
service for its sake, 

With duties done in days gone by, around those 
great Mazurian lakes. 

Each road well known to enter in, each pathless 
lane engraved on brain, 

When duty calls be what it may, his work will not 
be done in vain; 

For should the foe gain entrance there, God help 
those blind, misguided tools, 

Who know not that the Russian bear cares not for 
them, but calls them fools. 



OUR HEROES 225 

V 

Who is this man of wondrous weight, who walks 
around those grounds so vast; 

Who lives a life so free from care, no lines upon 
his brow are cast. 

What freedom is in every step that shows the nature 
of this man, 

Who gladly lays his pleasures by, to be a leader 
of the van. 

This man was he who won renown, through every 
land where wisdom dwells, 

Von Hindenburg the mighty one; through him we 
did the Russians quell. 

VI 

When he was called by Fatherland to lead his 
legions to the fray, 

And shut out the wild intruder, and with victory 
win the day; 

Von Hindenburg with his cohorts soon had the 
Russians on the run, 

And drove them back on their own soil ere their 
invasion had begun. 

This hero bold soon did unfold to all the world his 
weight in gold, 

The trust of all was well repaid, for he could not 
be bought nor sold, 



226 OUR HEROES 

VII 

Noble features and strong of mind ; eyes so piercing 
and smile so kind; 

Voice may be gruff, — not meant to be; 'twas only 
so their hearts to find. 

Upright and true though stern he seems; with 
utmost faith in him that rules, 

Leading his men with faith sublime, agent of Mars 
and not his tool. 

Such faith as his knows not a fear; he leads his 
cohorts with a cheer, 

And tells the world that vict'ry's won, though sad 
the cost to foes, I fear. 

VIII 

For who can show such deeds as these without de- 
feat to cross his path, 

From Prussia East, through Poland strong, to voice 
the burden of his wrath. 

First Kovno fell, then Vilna came within the meshes 
of his ring, 

While Lublin, Lodz, and Warsaw great, were helped 
through aid which he did bring. 

But Hindenburg stopped not until fair Riga was 
within his grasp, 

His goal was north to Petrograd, this gem he 
sought for Teutons'' clasp. 



OUR HEROES 227 

IX 

What means Petrograd to the world, who never 
heard this name before; 

Why should this city's name be changed when 
Teutons rap upon their door. 

What recks' their jealous passions strong when Hin- 
denburg brings on his men; 

He'll show them straight that name must change, 
and be St. Petersburg again. 

When on he comes with all his host, and batters 
down their wall so strong, 

He'll show them straight they erred once more, and 
make them quick correct this wrong. 

X 

When has the world of heroes seen such numbers 
vast in modern times, 

Whose every name is graven deep, and sounds as 
clear as sweetest chimes. 

Such names as these shall always be an asset strong 
for Fatherland, 

And teach our young to look with pride on men 
like these so true and grand, 

Our Crown Prince, Kluck, and Mackensen, von der 
Glatz, and poor Weddegen. 

Greatest of all stands Hindenburg, for what he does, 
he'll do again. 



928 OUR HEROES 

XI 

What Hindenburg is on the land, so was Wedden- 
gen on the sea: 

He was a boy of modest mind, whose only thoughts 
he numbered three; 

His country first, his Kaiser next, for well he knew 
his task was great, 

He fought his foes right on their shores, it mat- 
tered not what be his fate. 

His other thought was vengeance strong against the 
British navy long, 

That he might sink all Union Jacks, such was the 
burden of his song. 



XII 



All that he did, was without fear; he showed him- 
self ere he attacked, 

And proved he was' a noble born, the work he did, 
his soul was racked. 

When sighting ships doomed for short life, he called 
them all down to their boats, 

'Twas not their lives he wished to wreck, 'twas only 
boats which England floats. 

His eyes lit up with eager light when some vast 
boat dropped out of sight, 

This duty done, he sought the next; he never 
shirked an honest fight. 



OUR HEROES 229 

XIII 

One day he went, as was his wont, to search the 
seas near Britain's shores, 

His mind was set on Teutons' wrongs; he longed 
to see the missile soar 

Into the stern of some foul craft, that said no boats 
could enter in, 

And prove to those who played this game, that they 
would have to fight with him. 

But one bright day, with foul intent, his treacherous 
foe did mask his flag, 

This hero bold was murdered cold, for English gold 
they soiled their rag. 

XIV 

Now, von der Glatz did teach the Turk; his task 
was ardent from the first, 

For he had to instil much thought, and then bring 
on the much sought thirst 

For knowledge large, to check all foes, no matter 
who may strike at them, 

To guard their shores the task was great, he did 
what was beyond most men, 

And made the Golden Horn so tight, that naught 
could pass them day or night; 

The Dardanelles he guarded well, that none could 
best him in a fight. 



230 OUR HEROES 

XV 

The Britons came in all their strength to try to 
batter down his work, 

They thought perhaps he did his task like English- 
men, who duty shirk. 

The French then came like fighting cocks to help 
the British lion break through, 

But what they did was without thought, of havoc 
strong the shells they drew. 

For von der Glatz well knew his work, he knew 
that naught could pass his way, 

And was content to hold them back, their efforts 
could not win the day. 

XVI 

When Austria was hard beset, and overrun with 
Russian hordes, 

The Kaiser set about to find a leader bold, to cut 
the cords 

Of Russian strength, and win all back; to safeguard 
German lines' so near ; 

They must be stopped at any price, from Teuton 
soil they must be clear. 

A menace great perhaps they'd be if they should not 
be brought to halt. 

The Kaiser picked a man so strong, one whom he 
knew had not a fault. 



OUR HEROES 231 

XVII 

Von Mackensen, that is his name, a Teuton bold 
with mind so strong; 

He set about to find a way to regain ground that's 
lost so long. 

His work was hard, he had to hew a path so great 
through Russian lines, 

The foe did cross where he must go, for it was 
up-hill all the time. 

At Premezel he drove them out, this stronghold fell 
before his drive; 

He had regained in little time this key which cost 
so many lives. 

XVIII 

He stopped not there, but hammered on, with full 
intent to reach his goal, 

His mind was set upon one thought, all Russ to him 
must pay their toll. 

Work well begun, must tarry not, he ordered all 
his men forward; 

They loved their chief with all their hearts and 
only waited for the word. 

Lemberg the fair must fall to him, 'twas not enough 
to drive them back. 

In six short weeks he gained his end and tried to 
capture the whole pack. 



232 OUR HEROES 

XIX 

Those heroes bold, their duty did, on eastern borders 
of our land, 

All Teuton sons are pleased to grasp such honest 
men with both their hands. 

The work they did was wondrous bright, they put 
the bear down with a slam 

And took from him that spirit fierce, and made 
him docile as a lamb. 

But there was Kluck who had to drive a wedge so 
strong through ancient Gaul; 

Here was a task to stop most men, he only waited 
for the call. 



XX 



But Belgium stood full in his way, and said that 
he may not pass through, 

He argued not, but entered in, and showed them 
straight what he could do. 

The mighty Liege did bar his way, he must have 
access to Louvain, 

Those new tried guns did smash the way, both these 
fair towns he soon did gain. 

When Louvain fell, proud Brussels came, and asked 
that harm come not to her, 

These proud allies' soon had to flee, they thought 
they had no need to stir. 



OUR HEROES 233 

XXI 

To Antwerp strong they all did go, here surely they 
could take a rest, 

While Namur fair and Dinant strong stopped not 
the progress of his zest. 

Time spent in vain, must work vast harm to Ger- 
man plans to take Paris', 

The Allies thought Antwerp could hold; no place 
had forts so strong as this. 

They reckoned not on von Kluck's skill, they had 
a German for a foe, 

Their ways of warfare had to bow to Teuton sci- 
ence, mighty low. 

XXII 

The rest we know, how he did gain quick access to 
the North Sea coast, 

And drove all foes from out this land, all Belgium 
fell before his hosts. 

He lost not sight of Paris near, and tried right hard 
to capture it, 

The Allies strong, woke up at last, 'twas here our 
gallant Kluck was hit; 

But God did guard this gallant man, his life was 
saved for Fatherland, 

He will not rest until he takes proud Paris from 
the Frenchman's hand. 



234 OUR HEROES 

XXIII 

Our Crown Prince Fritz has earned the love of all 
his subjects far and near, 

And proved to all his right to lead vast armies on 
with conscience clear. 

A pampered son is not his part, hard work he does 
to earn his right 

To gain the hearts of those he loves, and hold this 
love with all his might. 

He ranks as leader high with all, his efforts show 
what he has done, 

The French he held up in their might, they cannot 
pass him at Verdun. 

XXIV 

When you do speak of heroes bold, the text is large 
and ne'er grows old, 

Such deeds shall live in days to come, these very 
names make all youth bold. 

Let honor be their portion just, let love of all go 
out to them, 

For through their aid the German cause was held 
up high by all these men. 

Our Kaiser good, as well as all our sons will cheer 
such noble men, 

Their deeds will live in days to come; the sword is 
greater than the pen. 



PART FOURTEEN 
XIV 

"GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR" 

Under this caption appeared the following article 
in the public press during the month of July, 1915: 

By Count von Lionell. 
(Author of ''European Political Economy," "Ger- 
man Economics," ''Forebodings and Forbear- 
ance," etc.) 



li 



URING almost one full year of con- 
flict between the great nations of Eu- 
rope, there have appeared in leading 
newspapers, from time to time, in- 
spired articles by representatives of 
leading press associations, which, 
while they have stated some facts, have failed mis- 
erably in the purpose of imparting adequate infor- 
mation. The articles have invariably been so word- 
ed as to mislead the public by attempting to hide 
the true state of affairs, as this has developed, dur- 
ing the tremendous upheaval, and such a one-sided- 
ness has been portrayed as to arouse suspicion of 
subsidized writers or a subsidized press. 



236 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

Paraphrasing a saying of America's great martyr- 
statesman, we may say, however, that while these 
inspired, one-sided articles may fool some of the 
people all the time, and be so adroitly worded as to 
fool all the people some of the time, intelligence 
will gradually penetrate to the consciousness of 
even some of the ivory-headed ones, and it will be 
impossible to fool all the people all of the time. 

To begin with, the reader must know that Ger- 
many is practically fighting alone. Although Aus- 
tria-Hungary and Turkey are putting up a strong 
defense, those that read will always see that it is 
German boats, German officers and, in the case 
of Austria, upward of 45 army corps (comprising 
nearly 2,000,000 German soldiers) and German- 
made munitions of war that are bringing victory 
to the nations defending themselves from the greed 
of their envious opponents. These facts are patent. 
Even Germany's enemies admit her superiority in 
every detail. 

The battles on land have favored German arms, 
skill and ingenuity from the very beginning, so 
much so that German troops occupy more Russian 
territory than would cover this great state of Mich- 
igan, containing a population of over 20,000,000 
people, while Russia, with her vast resources in 
men, has been able to penetrate the German lines 
but once, and for her presumption was rewarded 
with crushing disaster. 



GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 237 

It was the duty of Germany to assist Austria in 
driving the Russians from that country, which has 
been successfully done, in less than six weeks' time, 
although they overran all of eastern Austria, com- 
monly known as Galicia, for nearly ten months. In 
doing this for Austria it was as if Germany had 
done it for herself. The ponderous Russian gov- 
ernment must be put in a position of desuetude, 
inertness and impotency for future mischief. Her 
ambition to reach warm waters must be stopped, 
particularly westward. This Germany has done, 
and now Russia will begin to realize that might 
will not overcome right, especially when right spells 
Germany, Austria-Hungary or Turkey. 

A fact that is not well known is that Germany 
alone has over 750,000 Russian prisoners, the ma- 
jority of whom are glad to be prisoners of war in 
Germany, for they are well fed, well clothed, well 
housed and working throughout the empire at 
healthy labor, for which they are well paid, thus for 
the first time in their lives being treated like human 
beings. The reading public have no doubt won- 
dered at the weakness of colossal Russia, but when 
they understand that the majority of her troops are 
coerced by threats and driven by force to slaughter, 
it is no wonder that these poor, misguided, unen- 
lightened peasants are glad to surrender to their 
more humane captors. 



238 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

In the early days of the war the various govern- 
ments prophesied what they were going to do to 
Germany. England, France and Belgium were 
going to invade Germany on the west, while Russia 
was going to advance on the east, and all were to 
have a jollification in Berlin, where they would 
settle for all time German "militarism," and, par- 
ticularly, the enormous commercial supremacy 
which German thrift and ingenuity was building 
all over the world. But with each and everyone, 
the prophecies have gone wrong. While Germany 
did not reach Paris before Russia was in a position 
to advance, she at least made a conquest of all 
Belgium (with the exception of a small strip of 
land less than one-third the area of Wayne county) 
and has held it against all comers, notwithstanding 
England and France's combined efforts. 

Furthermore, nothing is ever mentioned in the 
dispatches to show that when Germany retreated 
almost from the gates of Paris, that the entire army 
did not retreat, but that a mighty force remained 
in the rear of Soissons, only 48 miles' from Paris, 
and, what is more important still, kept its position 
there. Instead of France making gains over the 
Germans daily, according to constant dispatches, 
the contrary is the truth. Germany today holds 
tenaciously the most important provinces in all 
France (excepting Paris) all along her northern 



GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 239 

and eastern border, and has 75 per cent of all 
France's coal supply, and 90 per cent of all of her 
iron ore supply. The possession of these two most 
necessary and useful of France's natural resources 
is a vital blow to the economic life of that country, 
particularly at present, when iron is so precious. 
Not only is France deprived of these two natural 
resources, but she has lost also most of her machin- 
ery for converting the raw material into the finished 
product. 

On the other hand, what have England and France 
accomplished? France has penetrated German Lor- 
raine at its most westerly border and is occupying 
a strip of land 26 miles long and ten miles wide, 
with a few small villages. Beyond this, the march 
to Berlin by England and France is not even in its 
inception. England has accomplished absolutely 
nothing. Her army of less than 600,000 is en- 
camped within 30 miles of the sea, in France, and 
that little strip of Belgium before mentioned, and 
there they lie. Of a total of 1,000,000 men sent by 
England, she admits, publicly, over 350,000 lost and 
Germany holds' over 100,000 of her men prisoners. 
Her losses are over 40 per cent. This has refer- 
ence only to men on land. Her losses to her navy 
are even more staggering. 

England has lost on the average 40 ships every 
week since Feb. 18. She admits 300 sunk with 



240 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

valuable cargoes. The public, no doubt, remembers 
the British North sea raid in which it was alleged 
that the British fleet drove the Germans ''to their 
hole." The facts of the matter are that the Ger- 
mans discovered the English after they passed 
Heligoland in a fog, pursued them to the English 
coast, and sank two of the fleet — the Tiger, 29,000 
tons; Australia, 19,500 tons, besides two destroyers. 

Last November, when the German fleet of five 
met the English of six off the Chilean coast, Ger- 
many got credit for sinking only two of the British 
ships, whereas four of the six were sunk — Warrior, 
14,000 tons; Monmouth, 10,000 tons; Good Hope, 
15,000 tons; Glasgow, 7,500 tons. 

Later in December, when the English fleet, en 
masse, over forty boats, encountered the German 
fleet of -five cruisers off the Falkland islands, and 
four were sunk, England forgot to mention that this 
particular victory cost her the Achilles', the Coch- 
rane and the Natal, all three of them cruisers of 
24 knots and better boats than the German Scharn- 
horst, Gneisenau, Leipzig and Neurenberg, to say 
nothing of the Shannon and Invincible, 19,500 tons, 
larger and faster cruisers than any of these above 
mentioned. 

The public hears no more of the combined British 
and French attempt to force the Dardanelles. Why ? 
This fiasco has cost England the dreadnaughts In- 



GERMANY A8 EUROPE'S SAVIOR 241 

flexible, 17,500 tons; Lord Nelson, 16,500 tons; 
Triumph, 12,000 tons; Comwallis, 14,000 tons; Ir- 
resistible, 15,500 tons; Ocean, 13,000 tons; Majestic, 
15,000 tons; Goliath, 13,500 tons; Africa, 15,000 
tons; Agamemnon, 16,500 tons, to say nothing of a 
number of cruisers and smaller boats, nevertheless 
component parts of the mighty British navy, and 
the French dreadnaughts, Suffren, Gaulos and Bou- 
vet. 

Last but not least, England's finest, largest, new- 
est and most valuable super-dreadnaught, the Queen 
Elizabeth, went to the bottom of the sea six weeks 
ago — to be exact, May 10. 

If the British public knew that their mightiest 
naval units were lost forever, the anger of the 
people would vent itself into more sinister ways 
than the mere shifting of the cabinet. The English 
government has withheld so much from the people 
that it dare not at this late date tell them the truth. 

England's other naval losses are enough to stag- 
ger any nation. Does it look like German naval 
inactivity when the mighty Audacious is sunk off 
the northern coast of Ireland? When the Bulwark 
is sunk even in the mouth of the Thames, and re- 
peated again later on? 

One reads daily of glorious French "victories." 
Where ? Almost at the gates of Paris. The French 
people know this, but the neutral readers think it 
is in Germany. 



242 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

It is the same with the Russian navy. Now and 
then the public are regaled with a naval battle on 
the Baltic, with some German cruisers sunk or seen 
limping into port. In the first place Russia's navy 
is all bottled up in the roads leading to Kronstad, 
near St. Petersburg, and in the second place, how 
could they be seen limping into port? If they were 
in a disabled condition, the victors would be in a 
position to follow up their aggression. But the gen- 
eral trend of subsidized thought is to mislead -the 
reading public. What an awakening there will be 
when Russia, first; France, second, and England, 
third, sue for peace ! Italy is not considered, as 
her share* for her perfidy, will be a revolution, fol- 
lowing the loss of her most precious northern states 
and the restoration of the Holy See to its original 
power. 

England, France, and Russia are continually try- 
ing to impress the outside world with the fact that 
they are fighting "for the cause of humanity." 
Humbug ! When did these countries ever con- 
sider the rights of others, if these interfered with 
their ambition? England has her Ireland, her 
India, her South Africa to be proud of. Her colonies 
have been called on to give up hundreds of thous- 
ands of good lives, that her own indolent, sport- 
loving sons may remain at home, safe. Civilized 
mother ! Nature has so organized all animals that 



GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 243 

the female will fight and give up her life even to 
save her offspring. Exquisite consolation, indeed, 
is the unstinted praise of the British staff when it 
announced to the widows and orphans, "They 
fought almost superhumanly, and saved the day for 
England. We are grieved to announce that our 
losses were heavy." 

Brave Canadians ! They are led to the slaughter 
while the English officer who directed the ill-fated 
charges, is' rewarded with the V. C. or higher order, 
according to their "birth." I have talked with 
members of the Canadian contingent who went 
through the horrors of La Bassee and Ypres and 
were honorably discharged, mangled. They have 
told me that Canada is' disgusted with the treat- 
ment her sons have received at the hands of the 
''mother" country, and that England will find it hard 
to convince fresh troops to accept the same dose 
accorded to preceding contingents'. 

Not content with the assistance of all the power- 
ful nations of Europe, England is moving heaven 
and earth in her endeavor to embroil neutral na- 
tions. The allies know they have failed miserably. 
Their attempts to enter Germany have failed. Their 
attempts to cut off food supplies shared the same 
fate. They are beggaring their own resources. 
Living is 50 per cent cheaper in Germany today 
than in England, France or Russia, because Ger- 



844 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

many is not run for the sole benefit of the exploit- 
ers of humanity. While all the allies are shrieking 
for munitions and spending fabulous treasure for 
them away from home, Germany possesses untold 
quantities and uses them with good results'. Her 
resources are inexhaustible, her factories are work- 
ing at full capacity, no gold leaves the country and 
prosperity is hers on every side. 

The allies are constantly reminding the public 
that' this or that loan was oversubscribed. Why do 
England and France issue government bonds in such 
small denominations as four shillings? Remember, 
gentle reader, a shilling is only 25 cents. To con- 
serve their gold, this scrip is' practically put in cir- 
culation like the fractional currency used during 
the trying days of America's Civil war. 

Another constant reminder is the great English 
navy. Just as valuable in this war as a man loaded 
down with gold, but starving to death on a desert 
island. Of what use is this navy when it has feared 
to show itself in the war zone? Reminds one of the 
fable of the small dog snarling on one side of a 
high fence, safe from harm, while on the other side 
serenely sits another dog, calmly waiting for the 
opening of a gate. German ingenuity has perfected 
a small boat to do the duty of the large boats with- 
out endangering hundreds, on which a crew of 20 
to 30 can do better service than 1,000 on a battle 



GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 245 

cruiser. Unheard-of things are asked by the British 
parliament to head off disaster — carte blanche in 
financial affairs, conscription of labor, orders in 
council giving unlimited license and authority, coali- 
tion cabinet and other strenuous methods employed 
by a stricken power to ward off disaster. 

England today is not the England people have 
been fooled into believing in. Her prestige, owing 
to her navy and domineering attitude, is shown to 
be based on bluster. Her antagonists this time are 
not unprotected Boers, Indians or swarthy island- 
ers, but her superiors in martial affairs, commercial 
affairs, financial affairs, and, last, but not least, 
patriotic affairs. It is 1 evident to all readers that 
the fight is directed against Germany. As long as 
she exists, the peace of Europe is assured. Without 
Germany, all the rest of Europe would be swallowed 
up, and there would be only Russia. Even Eng- 
land's position would become critical. Germany's 
geographical position has made it imperative that 
she be ever on her guard against the rapacious 
greed of her two inveterate enemies — Russia, with 
her designs on the Mediterranean, and England, 
actuated with an ambition to rule the rest of the 
world. But Germany will see to it that the nations 
of Europe, living in amity with all the world, shall 
not be crushed nor lose their national entity. 



246 GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 

That a foreign foe will never occupy Berlin is 
evidenced by the fact that Berlin is absolutely un- 
fortified and at the mercy of any invader who may 
reach it. This has always been a wonder to other 
nations, in this course, but the German people, 
united in their love of country and of God, know 
that it will never become necessary. Germany is 
invulnerable. 

On the other hand, the time is not far distant 
when the invasion of England by sea and air will 
be a stern reality. She will receive the punishment 
due her as the one responsible for the long dura- 
tion of the war and its fruitage of horror and deso- 
lation. 

Pity goes out to the brave men who give up their 
lives, the heroic soldiers of all the nations. If the 
world at large could only have transferred all this 
valor and ingenuity of the battle field to the service 
of peace, how enduring would that peace be, how 
magnificent, how conducive to brotherly love and 
the fulfilment of the Golden Rule; Loyalty to itself, 
to country, to God, all spent in torture and death — 
How gloriously could these virtues be used in ele- 
vating the races to a pinnacle of prosperity, prog- 
ress, peace and divine contentment. It shall be 
the duty of Germany to restore these to Europe. 

Germany is not looking for aggrandizement, but 
conquered Russian territory will be kept, because 



GERMANY AS EUROPE'S SAVIOR 247 

the people of that territory will be given their free- 
dom and they will joyously enter the German fed- 
eration. Belgium will be treated likewise. But 
from France not a thing will be taken, aside from 
the channel cities of Calais and Dunkirk. 



PART FIFTEEN 
XV 

"ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE" 
By Count von Lionell. 
(Author of "European Political Economy," "Ger- 
man Economics," "Forebodings and Forbear- 
ance," etc.) 

(Another article written for the press during 
August, 1915.) 

HE greatest crime of modern times, 
according to the British idea, is that 
other nations should dare to assert 
themselves, and attempt to throw off 
the shackles, that she has so carefully- 
planned to keep forever on all coun- 
tries which have not already fallen under the vis- 
ionary power which she has attempted to wield 
over all the uncivilized as well as civilized world, 
and rises up in dire indignation to think that any 
country could be so foolish, as to flout her to her 
face, and strike out for themselves. In plain words, 
the present attitude of the two German empires 
are a menace and a constant nightmare to the 
English government. The easy-going, peace-loving 
disposition of the German peoples who never bother 
their minds about the attitude of any other coun- 
tries, knowing their ability to take care of them- 




250 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

selves, should any one nation or number of nations, 
dare to attack them, went on in the even tenor of 
their way, acquiring financial and commercial 
strength, receiving the respect due them from all 
the world, including their neighbors, until such 
time as envy, greed and fear overcame prudence 
and all respect for the opinions of the world, out- 
side the pale of British thought, and caused her to 
conspire with other nations, hoping thereby to curb 
the honest aspirations of Germanic influence over 
the markets of overseas trade, and retain for herself 
the ever-increasing demand for articles stamped, 
"Made in Germany/' or "Made in Austria" How 
well she has succeeded, is now apparent to all in- 
telligent readers'. 

England, in her attempt to interfere with things 
Teutonic, has, to use the common vernacular, bit- 
bitten off more than was good for her. Hence this 
terrible nightmare, which is of late, causing so much 
uneasiness to her statesmen, and which is now be- 
ginning to communicate to her people at home, as 
well as her dependencies overseas. 

But this is only the beginning of her troubles. 
When England declared war on Germany and Aus- 
tria, not for humanity's sake — abolish the thought, 
— not for to preserve the neutrality of any one 
nation, — not out of love and affection for either 
France or Russia, but out of love for England's 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 251 

money bags alone, coupled with her intense vanity 
and greed for more power, she has no one to blame 
but herself for the disaster confronting her homes, 
financial position, loss of prestige among decent 
governments, loss of that dominant position which 
she has persuaded all to believe in, and the loss of 
love of her colonies, whose bravest sons have been 
led to slaughter, to save her own indolent lives 
from the horrors of war, while she is loath to give 
up her races, cricket, regattas, and other social func- 
tions, so dear to the really effeminate English. 

But the colonies are awake to the treatment they 
have received, and the cry that now goes up from 
England for men is agonizing. 

The government, however, is not proselyting 
among her snobs, squires, or nobility, but are enact- 
ing laws to force the peasantry to the front, or to 
take up work in factories to augment the manufac- 
ture of munitions of war, always leaving those 
superior persons at home, to shame or coerce the 
lower classes to do the duty which rightfully be- 
longs to the more intelligent, who are in a better 
position to realize the importance of the duty ex- 
pected of them. This is as close to conscription as 
the constitutional laws of England will, for the 
present, allow. The real thing will come of neces- 
sity, a little later on. 



252 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

It is amusing to note with what supreme nerve 
England notifies the world that she closes the North 
Sea against the commerce of neutral countries, 
alleging that vast area unsafe for neutral maritime 
commerce, whereas, the real reason is, that German 
engineers have rendered it dangerous for the in- 
vincible British navy to cruise about in these waters. 

In other words, the Germans "put one over" on 
them, right under their noses, and to save their 
reputation, they warn the world not to attempt to 
navigate thereon. 

The closing of the North Sea has in no way 
affected German interests, whereas England has lost 
hundreds of ships along her coast line from Aber- 
deen, Scotland, down to Ramsgate, at the mouth of 
the Thames, while from Dover, right on the nar- 
rowest part of the English channel, to Lands End, 
she has lost hundreds more, and from Penzance up 
into the Irish Sea as far as Belfast she has lost 
many more, forcing her, through her ineffectiveness, 
to insinuate that the mines laid all around her, could 
not have been the work of German naval men, but 
is willing to accuse neutral ships for this work, and 
what is more astonishing, cause some people to 
really believe it. 

The public never hears of the whereabouts of the 
British navy in home waters. Everyone knows that 
the large units of the German navy are at Kiel Bay, 



ENGLAND'S NIG HTM ABE 25S 

while their submarines are encircling all England, 
looking for the British armada, which dare not 
show its head. 

It is true England has sent out a large number 
of her boats, possibly sixty-five to seventy, in the 
North Atlantic, to protect Halifax, New York, 
Hampton Roads, Bermuda, Bahamas', Jamaica and 
the Panama Canal, acting as the good Samaritan for 
others, incidentally protecting these craft from 
being sent to the bottom, and keeping up her bluff 
of invincible navy, and dominating forts not be- 
longing to her. 

Of course, the reading public will be quick to ask, 
what about the German boats; why don't they come 
out and give battle? This can be answered readily. 
On April 1st, 1915, England was credited with 468 
boats built, and 77 building. France, with 335 built 
and 33 building, giving these two nations 803 boats 
in commission and 110 nearing completion. 

All these boats, with full access to the vast ex- 
panse of the Atlantic, Germany, on the same date, 
had 246 built and 58 building, and Austria-Hungary 
had 85 built and 39 building, giving these two na- 
tions 331 built and 97 building. The predominance, 
as you can see, is three to one. Germany) is not so 
foolhardy as to send out a squadron to be anni- 
hilated at such odds, but will quietly wait until she 
has sunk enough British and French vessels of war 



254 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

to equalize her power, and then, boat for boat, man 
for man, show her arch enemy that German pluck, 
perseverance, and efficiency are superior to brag- 
gadocious bluster, and vanity. 

Russia has 159 built and 82 building. But Ger- 
many has already eliminated this entire navy by 
bottling up more than half in the Gulf of Riga and 
the Gulf of Finland, while the remainder (except for 
14, which are at Vladivostok, almost 15,000 miles 
away), are in the inland Black Sea, hiding from 
the Turkish navy and German submarines. 

But the work of destruction goes merrily on. Of 
the 803 English and French men-of-war, Germany 
sank 98 British and 33 French boats, reducing the 
number by 131, actual fighting units, with over one 
million tons of displacement, and allowing her sub- 
marines (the only effective ones ever built by any 
nation), to hunt out the remaining vessels and get 
them, one by one, until the psychological moment 
arrives, and then, use the larger units in such a 
manner as will command respect from all neutral 
countries, and spread fear and consternation in 
England. 

This may sound ambiguous, but the facts are that 
Germany will eventually land a vast army on Eng- 
lish soil and make that country abjectly sue for 
peace in the halls of their own Parliament. 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 255 

On Feb. 28, 1915, England, for the first time in 
one hundred years, has suppressed the British navy 
list, as far as the public is concerned. This would 
never have happened, had not her losses been more 
than she dared to announce to her people. Not only 
ships gone (but men as well) who are not reported 
lost forever. The last time this list was suppressed 
occurred in February, 1814, at the close of the 
Napoleonic wars. 

British sea supremacy must exist at all costs, 
even if only on paper. Of course, England is not 
frightened. Far from it. Nevertheless, on Feb. 
25, 1915, England started to suspend the sailings of 
liners scheduled for trips to America, and ever since 
that date, there have been hesitancy and alteration 
of route. 

Everyone knows that England has attempted to 
shut out all imports of every description to Ger- 
many and Austria, no matter if coming from neutral 
countries, and consisting of foodstuffs, for the 
civilian population. 

Defeated in her attempts to land troops on Ger- 
man soil, or to harass Germany or Austria in any 
way, she resorts to attempts at starving the nations 
having over 120,000,000 people. 

Such unmitigated conceit is certainly wonderful. 
Of course Germany and Austria are going to be 
starved, if England and France, with their 913 



256 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

boats (that were), say so. Does the intelligent read- 
ing public swallow such buncombe? Do you not 
know that Germany and Austria are absolutely in- 
dependent of the outside world for their economic 
life, consisting of foodstuffs and natural resources 
of all kinds? If you did not know it, then under- 
stand now that Germany and Austria cannot be 
starved, and that living in these two countries is 
50 per cent cheaper than in England, or France, or 
Russia. 

Bread, of which you have heard so much, is 
cheaper in Berlin per pound, than in Detroit, Mich- 
igan. Frog legs, caviar, and mutton chops may be 
scarce in Germany, but not potatoes, cabbage, bread 
of all grains, and beef, sugar, rice, coffee, liquors 
or tobaccos. 

There is absolutely no truth in the numerous re- 
ports emanating from London, Paris or Geneva, 
that the Teutonic countries are nearing starvation. 
Nor have these two countries exhausted by 50 per 
cent their resources in available men of military 
training. There are no riots throughout Germany 
against unoffending English, French, Russian and 
Italian citizens, at any time during this war, while 
England disgraced herself by allowing mobs to in- 
timidate merchants and citizens of German extrac- 
tion, just because Germany is more efficient in 
delivering sledgehammer blows to her enemies on 
the battle field. 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 257 

When anyone wants a thing well done, the old 
way is to do it themselves. England calls out lust- 
ily for more colonials, to go to the front, while she 
has so many able-bodied rioters available in London 
and other large urban centers. Why this frenzy 
against peaceable German citizens should occur, 
passes all imagination. 

From the throne down, England's most important 
subjects, social, financial, and commercial, are of 
German extraction. 

The gambling or easy-money habit is so strong 
in England that, according to the London Mail, 
lively betting occurs daily on chances of battles lost 
or gained, boats sunk or escaped, duration of war, 
pro and con, loss of large cities in Russia or France, 
and other great events, serious to the people at 
large, but absolutely nothing to the average Brit- 
isher. 

This is a small example of English habits. Great- 
er ones are to embroil many countries into a serious 
conflict (which may mean extinction to them) 
under promises of ample support, and then not 
be in a position to render their ally any assistance, 
as in the present case. 

England forbids one country to allow German 
troops to enter it, and is unable to back her up in 
the demand, causing the ruination of the country 
and the absolute loss of the national entity. At one 



258 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

fell sweep, depriving a good family of its royal heri- 
tage and bringing untold suffering upon the entire 
population. 

The greatest fortresses in Europe fell before the 
invading army, and England had to take to her 
boats to escape capture at the hands of the Ger- 
mans. At that, she lost some thousands of able- 
bodied, trained marines who fled to a neutral shore 
and are interned. 

Considering how England, France and Russia 
have lost the fight from the very beginning, it is 
wonderful how Winston Spencer Churchill can say 
at this late day (July 17, 1915) : "Germany is get- 
ting in the position of a wild beast in a cage that 
sees the fire getting nearer and nearer, and makes 
desperate dashes right and left." 

In a way he is right. England has by tremendous 
exertion penetrated as much as thirty miles of un- 
obstructed French territory, and remains there, get- 
ting her second wind, so as to be in a position to 
run back to the coast out of harm's way, when the 
German army starts to come. 

That is' what he probably meant by "making wild 
dashes." 

Kitchener also said the war would start in May. 
It did start, but not the way he expected. The 
English commander in chief was compelled to report 
to his superiors "that the Canadians saved the day 
for England, but that their losses in one fight alone 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 259 

were over 25,000." Brave Canadians ! But they 
are waking up, and the next big losses will not be 
Canadians. 

A nation that brings on a war, and then depends 
on others to fight their battles, don't deserve to 
have anything but losses. 

John Redmond made a statement in March, 1915, 
that there were over 250,000 Irish fighting in the 
ranks, while in June, 1915, the same gentleman said 
there were about 120,000 Irishmen at the front. In 
three months' time his memory had fallen off fifty 
per cent. The actual facts concerning the Irish 
volunteers at the front are not available, but hun- 
dreds of private reports from other colonials at the 
front place their number at less than 50,000. 

Why should Ireland assist in a quarrel that is not 
of her seeking, and why are there so few of them 
at the call of their government? The answer is 
that these down-trodden, politically abused people, 
have long memories of incessant wrongs inflicted 
upon them wantonly for generations, and with the 
exception of a small portion, located in County 
Ulster, the balance of the country are heart and 
soul in accord with Germany, and nothing would 
please them more than to see a German army land 
on their coast. Irish volunteers would not then be 
wanting. The country would practically rise up to 
a man and fight side by side with their steadfast 
friends. 



260 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

England knows this, and for that reason has con- 
stantly — since the war — kept over 100,000 of her 
soldiers (not constabulary), there to guard against 
an uprising. 

England, not being able to reach Germany, with 
all her boasted strength and resources, attempts to 
blockade maritime commerce, forgetting that it is 
a poor rule that will not work both ways. Her 
efforts to cut off Germany has reacted upon herself, 
so much so, that she is frightened to the verge of 
hysterics. 

To add insult to injury, Kitchener absolutely re- 
fuses to allow the public to glean any knowledge of 
what is transpiring. The British government, now 
in the hands of their military, and brokers, are 
willing to call on the people for assistance, but 
would never dream of taking them into their confi- 
dence. 

If the average Englishman knew the full extent 
of the misery, Grey, Asquith, Churchill and a small 
coterie of others have brought upon their country, 
just to satisfy personal vanity and gain, the stirring 
times of Oliver Cromwell would be enacted over 
again. 

It is commonly believed that history seldom re- 
peats itself, but the anger of the people might not 
stop at the ministers but would overwhelm the 
throne. 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 261 

England is constantly prating of her fight for an 
ideal; liberty, justice and humanity. Are there no 
other governments built upon the same solid foun- 
dation? Germany possesses greater liberty, purer 
justice, absolutely devoid of miscarriage, and her 
humanity and culture walk hand in hand with the 
noblest teachings of the Almighty, diffusing knowl- 
edge and contentment to all her people. The gov- 
ernment has nothing to hide from the people. The 
loss of life is heavy, the waste of treasure is great, 
maritime commerce crippled, but all the German 
races know what is going on all the time, and in 
that knowledge have greater fortitude to bear their 
grief, greater confidence for ultimate success, and 
greater love for their Kaiser, who is moving heaven 
and earth toward the means of making a peace that 
will endure. The world at large did love him be- 
fore the war, but a censored and subsidized press 
has attempted to belittle the noblest and most ex- 
alted man of modern times, and after he has brought 
peace out of havoc, will then again come in for all 
manner of praise. 

His private life, as well as his public efforts, 
have been blameless, and none mourn more than he, 
for the innumerable lives of all nations, snuffed out 
so recklessly, through the insatiable greed and lust 
of a few British statesmen (?) 



262 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

Well may the Kaiser be likened with Augustus 
Caesar, who cried out for his legions, some years 
before the beginning of the Christian era. The 
Kaiser feels like a father to all Germans, and 
equally grieves at every loss. 

Anyone who is not a German, knows nothing of 
Germany. All nations think their own is perfec- 
tion, and invincible, which should be so. 

Patriotism is the keynote to a country's safety. 
Germany and Austria are solidly united, and that 
is the reason, after one full year of conflict with 
all the balance of Europe at her throat, she has 
been able to astonish the world with her prowess, 
tact, and ingenuity. The national government has 
no need to send her ministers to her great centers 
to plead with the people, as Lloyd George was 
compelled to do, before a Manchester audience last 
month, a most humiliating speech, to come from 
one, who considers Germany a despised antagonist. 

The London Times, with characteristic fatuity, 
remarks, ''The unexpected strength and tenacity the 
Germans are displaying in all the theaters of the 
war, necessitate the heaviest sacrifices." At this late 
date London begins to fear that her blockade is 
worse than useless. Germany apparently has all 
she needs to carry on her end of the conflict, just 
as though England did not exist. 



ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 263 

Necessity is the mother of invention, and German 
ingenuity replaces many staples thought absolutely 
imperative to her economic welfare. Germany is 
not dependent upon neutral countries for food- 
stuffs, nor munitions of war, nor any component 
part that enters into its manufacture. 

The public press is daily teeming with large an- 
nouncements of shipments, consisting of steel rails 1 , 
locomotives, freight cars, pig iron, billet steel, cop- 
per, cotton, all kinds of oils, powder, dynamite 
shells, shrapnel, guns, arms, horses and troops, 
boats, automobiles, trucks and numerous other ar- 
ticles, for which they are compelled to pay in gold, 
thereby diminishing their reserves, enormously, and 
inviting bankruptcy or future repudiation of their 
national obligations. 

A statement issued on June 4, 1915, by the bureau 
of census gives U. S. 119 billions of wealth. 
Also the latest figures available for tho entire Brit- 
ish Empire (Great Britain, Canada, Australia, In- 
dia, South Africa, and all remaining possessions), 
at 108,250,000,000. The same report gives Germany 
alone 76,000,000,000, without considering Austria, 
whose wealth is reckoned at 40,000,000,000, giving 
the two little Teutonic nations more wealth than 
the combined British Empire, and the reading pub- 
lic wonder how these German countries can keep 
up. 



264 ENGLAND'S NIGHTMARE 

The latest statistics just prior to the war gave 
France a national debt of $160.24 per capita; Great 
Britain, $76.35 per capita; Russia, $27.02 per cap- 
ita, and Germany, $17.81 per capita. Not one ounce 
of gold leaves Germany or Austria. You can read- 
ily see the difference, and the ultimate result it is 
going to have on the country. 

While Germany and Austria are putting up tre- 
mendous energies to force a lasting peace upon 
Europe, without looking for too great a reward, 
England and her allies are in a constant nightmare 
of fright, wondering how it is done. 

True patriotism, love of country and Kaiser, 
coupled with steadfast resolution toward the ac- 
quiring of one object, utter disregard for the ad- 
verse opinions of her enemies, and willingness to 
suffer all sacrifices of industrial and financial wealth, 
as well as personal service for the safeguard of 
the Empire, are the fundamental reasons for Ger- 
many and Austria's success in driving out the ruth- 
less invaders. 



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